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KMID : 1138720200460040041
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Korean Public Health Research
2020 Volume.46 No. 4 p.41 ~ p.51
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Relationship of Health Care Resources and Cumulative Proportion of COVID-19 Cases
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Lee Won-Jae
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Abstract
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Objective: The study attempts to find how health care resources are related to the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 cases among the countries.
Methods: Data published by WHO and OECD were analyzed. Correlation analysis and hierarchial regression analysies were conducted and the final model was selected.
Results: Number of physicians and number of beds per 1,000 people and per capita health care expenditure were significantly related to the cumulative proportion of COVID-19 patients. Number of physicians and per capita health care expenditure were positively related to the cumulative proportion of COVID-19 patients. Number of beds per 1,000 people was negatively related to the cumulative proportion of COVID-19 patients. Number of corona virus patients, such as SARS and MERS, tuberculosis and per capita GNI were used for control.
Conclusions: Health care resources are needed to prepare for the unexpected outbreak such as COVID-19. Enough physicians are needed to diagnose and treat patients as soon as a communicable diseases spreads. Enough hospital beds are required to treat and isolate patients when a disease spread among people.
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KEYWORD
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COVID-19, Number of physicians per 1,000 people, Number of beds per 1,000 people, per capita health care expenditure
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