Does digital technology adoption affect COVID-19 health outcomes? A quantitative analysis on the global level

Does digital technology adoption affect COVID-19 health outcomes? A quantitative analysis on the global level Faezeh Yazdi, Farzin Rasoulyan, Seyed Reza Mirnezami International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Adopting digital technology could facilitate the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some analysts argue that countries that adopted digital technology in their health sector have managed to control the virus better (Whitelaw et al., 2020). For instance, countries with more comprehensive contact tracing have significantly lower fatality rates (Yalaman et al., 2021). Moreover, World Health Organization (WHO) believes this technology is a crucial enabler for countries to meet the current challenge (WHO. Regional Office for the Western Pacific & University of Melbourne, 2021). In this regard, this study aims to quantitatively find the relationship between the technological advancement of countries and COVID-19 health outcomes, using seven technological indices that measure technological advancement. The authors used the multiple linear regression method to answer the research questions. The first analysis focuses on a cross section of all countries worldwide, and the second focuses on European countries for which weekly death statistics exist after the pandemic. The findings support those countries with more technological abilities managed to control the virus’s mor...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research