HOW VULNERABLE ARE HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC? AN MCDM APPROACH
Decision Making: Applications in Management and Engineering, cilt.5, sa.2, ss.372-395, 2022 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 5 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.31181/dmame0318062022t
- Dergi Adı: Decision Making: Applications in Management and Engineering
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.372-395
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Covid-19 Pandemic, Entropy Method, High–Income Countries, MCDM, PIV Method
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
© 2022 by the authors.This paper tries to determine the most vulnerable points of high–income countries during the Covid-19 pandemic in an MCDM setting. For this aim, we use the entropy method to obtain criteria weights and the PIV method for the comparisons. We employ a wide range of criteria that account for political, demographic, capacity, and Covid-19 indicators including vaccination. Our sample consists of 40 HICs. The results reveal that countries with less equitable healthcare systems and with more vaccine hesitancy are more vulnerable to Covid-19. Hospital bed capacity, a strict government policy, and a lower percentage of the population who smoke add to the success of countries in this combat. We compare our findings with SAW and MAUT techniques as well and obtain very similar rankings. Therefore, we conclude that the PIV method can be used for national performance evaluations with a reduced rank reversal problem and computational simplicity.