Study of effectiveness of policies mitigating health and economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a large social and economic impact worldwide. At the present stage, in this project, I will use publicly available data to assess strategies undertaken by governments to mitigate impacts while preserving the health of the population. This paper consists of two parts c...
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| Format: | master thesis |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repository: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/344274 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/344274 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | COVID-19 (Disease) COVID-19 (Disease)--Econcomic aspects COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy COVID-19 Government policies Health COVID-19 (Malaltia) COVID-19 (Malaltia) -- Aspectes econòmics COVID-19 (Malaltia) -- Aspectes polítics Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Aspectes socials Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament humà::Salut |
| Summary: | The COVID-19 pandemic is having a large social and economic impact worldwide. At the present stage, in this project, I will use publicly available data to assess strategies undertaken by governments to mitigate impacts while preserving the health of the population. This paper consists of two parts connected with a current state of data taken from open public sources. In the first part, I implement D models to the real data to forecast a future state of death numbers in Spain. In the second part, I use Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker with the real data to evaluate the effects of different policies on death numbers and daily new cases. I will show that the most effective policies to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 will be restrictions on gathering policy, facial mask protection policy and stay at home policy. Overall, this paper suggests that the government anti-pandemic responses have substantial effects on preserving the health of the population |
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