Role of multiresolution vulnerability indices in COVID-19 spread in India: a Bayesian model-based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

COVID-19 has differentially affected countries, with health infrastructure and other related vulnerability indicators playing a role in determining the extent of its spread. Vulnerability of a geographical region to COVID-19 has been a topic of interest, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries like India to assess its multifactorial impact on incidence, prevalence or mortality. This study aims to construct a statistical analysis pipeline to compute such vulnerability indices and investigate their association with metrics of the pandemic growth.

Design

Using publicly reported observational socioeconomic, demographic, health-based and epidemiological data from Indian national surveys, we compute contextual COVID-19 Vulnerability Indices (cVIs) across

SUBMITTER: Bhattacharyya R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676421 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature