An Assessment of Systemic Factors and COVID-19 Mortality in Africa

An Assessment of Systemic Factors and COVID-19 Mortality in Africa

Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the association between several country-level systemic indices and the deaths from COVID-19 across African countries. Method: Regression analyses were conducted to test the association between selected indices and deaths from COVID-19 across Afr...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of public health 2022-09, Vol.67, p.1604915-1604915
Hauptverfasser: Owoyemi, Ayomide, Balogun, Tolulope, Okoro, Joy, Ndoro, Tariro, Fasominu, Oluwakayode, Atanda, Adejare, Abioye, Ibraheem
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Sprache:eng
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Africa
COVID
governance
lockdown
mortality
Public Health Archive
stringency index
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Zusammenfassung:Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the association between several country-level systemic indices and the deaths from COVID-19 across African countries. Method: Regression analyses were conducted to test the association between selected indices and deaths from COVID-19 across African countries. All tests were run at the α = 0.05 level of significance. Result: We found a statistically significant correlation between total COVID-19 deaths per million and Stringency Index ( p -value
ISSN:1661-8564
1661-8556
1661-8564
DOI:10.3389/ijph.2022.1604915