Spreading the disease: The role of culture

Laliotis, Ioannis; Minos, Dimitrios

doi:10.31235/osf.io/z4ndc

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“…Second, intergenerational co-residence may reflect a more widespread presence of active religious communities encouraging physical contacts conducive to the spread of Covid-19. A carefully designed study of 312 areas in Germany with varying proportions of Catholics found that Covid fatalities were higher in areas with higher proportions of Catholics ( Laliotis and Minos, 2020 ). The authors hypothesize that Catholics may have stronger social and family networks, which e.g.…”

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Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*

Fenoll

Grossbard

2020

Economics & Human Biology

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Highlights More people died from Covid in countries or states with higher rates of intergenerational co-residence. The positive correlation persists even when controlling for demographic characteristics, economic factors, and anti-Covid measures. The positive association between co-residence and fatalities is led by the US. Intergenerational co-residence and Covid detected cases are also positively correlated.

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“…Unfortunately, we did not have data on excess mortality for each area in our data set. An example of a study based on excess mortality after Covid limited to a particular country is Laliotis and Minos (2020) .…”

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Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*

Fenoll

Grossbard

2020

Economics & Human Biology

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“…Other economic studies focus on firms' strategies to limit the crisis impact; to date, these studies have underestimated impacts such as mental health (18). Observational or simulation-based studies based on sociology, psychology and economic approaches emphasize the efficiency of measures to change individuals' behavior and modulate outbreak dynamics (19)(20)(21).…”

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Individual Behaviors and COVID-19 Lockdown Exit Strategy: A Mid-Term Multidimensional Bio-economic Modeling Approach

Ferchiou

Bornet

Lhermie

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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As of mid-2020, eradicating COVID-19 seems not to be an option, at least in the short term. The challenge for policy makers consists of implementing a suitable approach to contain the outbreak and limit extra deaths without exhausting healthcare forces while mitigating the impact on the country's economy and on individuals' well-being. To better describe the trade-off between the economic, societal and public health dimensions, we developed an integrated bioeconomic optimization approach. We built a discrete age-structured model considering three main populations (youth, adults and seniors) and 8 socio-professional characteristics for the adults. Fifteen lockdown exit strategies were simulated for several options: abrupt or progressive (4 or 8 weeks) lockdown lift followed by total definitive transitory final unlocking. Three values of transmission rate (Tr) were considered to represent individuals' barrier gesture compliance. Optimization under constraint to find the best combination of scenarios and options was performed on the minimal total cost for production losses due to contracted activities and hospitalization in the short and mid-term, with 3 criteria: mortality, person-days locked and hospital saturation. The results clearly show little difference between the scenarios based on the economic impact or the 3 criteria. This means that policy makers should focus on individuals' behaviors (represented by the Tr value) more than on trying to optimize the lockdown strategy (defining who is unlocked and who is locked). For a given Tr, the choices of scenarios permit the management of the hospital saturation level with regard to both its intensity and its duration, which remains a key point for public health. The results highlight the need for behavioral or experimental economics to address COVID-19 issues through a better understanding of individual behavior motivations and the identification of ways to improve biosecurity compliance.

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“…Other economic studies focus on rms' strategies to limit the crisis impact; to date, these studies have underestimated impacts such as mental health (18). Observational or simulation-based studies based on sociology, psychology and economic approaches emphasize the e ciency of measures to change individuals' behaviour and modulate outbreak dynamics (19)(20)(21).…”

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Individual behaviours and COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy: a mid-term multidimensional bio-economic modelling approach

Ferchiou

Bornet

Lhermie

et al. 2020

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As of mid-2020, eradicating COVID-19 seems not to be an option, at least in the short term. The challenge for policy makers consists of implementing a suitable approach to contain the outbreak and limit extra deaths without exhausting healthcare forces while mitigating the impact on the country's economy and on individuals’ well-being. To better describe the trade-off between the economic, societal and public health dimensions, we developed an integrated bioeconomic optimization approach. We built a discrete age-structured model considering three main populations (youth, adults and seniors) and 8 socio-professional characteristics for the adults. Fifteen lockdown exit strategies were simulated for several options: abrupt or progressive (4 or 8 weeks) lockdown lift followed by total definitive transitory final unlocking. Three values of transmission rate (Tr) were considered to represent individuals’ barrier gesture compliance. Optimization under constraint to find the best combination of scenarios and options was performed on the minimal total cost for production losses due to contracted activities and hospitalization in the short and mid-term, with 3 criteria: mortality, person-days locked and hospital saturation. The results clearly show little difference between the scenarios based on the economic impact or the 3 criteria. This means that policy makers should focus on individuals’ behaviours (represented by the Tr value) more than on trying to optimize the lockdown strategy (defining who is unlocked and who is locked). For a given Tr, the choices of scenarios permit the management of the hospital saturation level with regard to both its intensity and its duration, which remains a key point for public health. The results highlight the need for behavioural or experimental economics to address COVID-19 issues through a better understanding of individual behaviour motivations and the identification of ways to improve biosecurity compliance.

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Spreading the disease: The role of culture

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*

Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*

Individual Behaviors and COVID-19 Lockdown Exit Strategy: A Mid-Term Multidimensional Bio-economic Modeling Approach

Individual behaviours and COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy: a mid-term multidimensional bio-economic modelling approach

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