Correlation of Demographics, Healthcare Availability, and COVID-19 Outcome: Indonesian Ecological Study.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To analyze the correlation between demographic and healthcare availability indicators with COVID-19 outcome among Indonesian provinces. Methods: We employed an ecological study design to study the correlation between demographics, healthcare availability, and COVID-19 indicators. Demographic and healthcare indicators were obtained from the Indonesian Health Profile of 2019 by the Ministry of Health while COVID-19 indicators were obtained from the Indonesian COVID-19 website in August 31st 2020. Non-parametric correlation and multivariate regression analyses were conducted with IBM SPSS 23.0. Results: We found the number of confirmed cases and case growth to be significantly correlated with demographic indicators, especially with distribution of age groups. C

SUBMITTER: Wirawan GBS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7882903 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature