How well can the world’s poor protect themselves from the new coronavirus?

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Crawford School of Public Policy
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Event details

ACDE Seminar

Date & time

Tuesday 23 June 2020
10.30am–12.00pm

Venue

Online via Zoom

Speaker

Caitlin Brown, Central European University

We propose an index of the adequacy of home environments for protection (HEP) from COVID-19, and we compare our index across developing countries using data for one million sampled households from the latest Demographic and Health Surveys. We find that prevailing WHO recommendations for protection posit unrealistic home environments. Only 10 per cent of households are deemed to have adequate HEP across all the dimensions considered. 60 per cent have a health-care facility within 5km. A strong wealth effect is indicated within and between countries. Only 6 per cent of the poorest 40 per cent have an adequate HEP, and the proportion is virtually zero in sub-Saharan Africa.

https://anu.zoom.us/j/427393883

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