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Assessing Response Readiness to Health Emergencies: A Spatial Evaluation of Health and Socio-Economic Justice in Pakistan

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  • Muhammad Sajjad

    (Hong Kong Baptist University)

  • Syed Hassan Raza

    (Quaid-I-Azam University)

  • Asad Abbas Shah

    (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

Abstract

COVID19 pandemic has put the global health emergency response to the test. Providing health and socio-economic justice across communities/regions helps in resilient response. In this study, a Geographic Information Systems-based framework is proposed and demonstrated in the context of public health-related hazards and pandemic response, such as in the face of COVID19. Indicators relevant to health system (HS) and socio-economic conditions (SC) are utilized to compute a response readiness index (RRI). The frequency histograms and the Analysis of Variance approaches are applied to analyze the distribution of response readiness. We further integrate spatial distributional models to explore the geographically-varying patterns of response readiness pinpointing the priority intervention areas in the context of cross-regional health and socio-economic justice. The framework’s application is demonstrated using Pakistan’s most developed and populous province, namely Punjab (districts scale, n = 36), as a case study. The results show that ~ 45% indicators achieve below-average scores (value

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  • Muhammad Sajjad & Syed Hassan Raza & Asad Abbas Shah, 2024. "Assessing Response Readiness to Health Emergencies: A Spatial Evaluation of Health and Socio-Economic Justice in Pakistan," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 169-199, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:173:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s11205-022-02922-9
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