ArticleInternational journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR2022
Are preparedness indices reflective of pandemic preparedness? A COVID-19 reality check.
Article in International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Learning from COVID-19: A Systematic Review of the IHR-SPAR Framework's Role in the Pandemic Response.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Coronavirus Disease 2019 Convalescent Plasma Outpatient Therapy to Prevent Outpatient Hospitalization: A Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data From 5 Randomized Trials.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Pooled it
- The dynamic preparedness metric: results from a global and regional analysis of health emergency preparedness.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Exploring pandemic preparedness through public perception and its impact on health service quality, attitudes, and healthcare image.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Coordination and modularization: the experience of the joint prevention and control mechanism to COVID emergencies in China.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Updated WHO list of emerging pathogens for a potential future pandemic: Implications for public health and global preparedness.Le infezioni in medicina · 2024Review
- COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Outpatient Therapy to Prevent Outpatient Hospitalization: A Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data From Five Randomized Trials.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
The paper contributes to the body of knowledge working towards enhancing the understanding of crisis and disaster preparedness and effective response, via the lens of the ongoing global pandemic and responding to the questions: do the current measures for pandemic preparedness reflect preparedness adequately, and what does pandemic preparedness mean? We analysed how the reported cumulative mortality rates, during the spring of 2020 and in the 60 days after the date of a country's first COVID-19 related death, compared to the expected preparedness rank according to the existing global preparedness indices (IHR and GHSI) on a country level. We found, at country level, that the health-related outcomes from the first wave of the pandemic were primarily negatively correlated with the expected preparedness. We contend that our results indicate a need to investigate further development and enhancement of the preparedness indices.
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