Health-care preventive measures, logistics challenges and corporate social responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic: break the ice

Abstract

Purpose

The study aims to analyze the role of coronavirus testing capacity to possibly reduce the case fatality ratio (CFR) in a large cross-section of countries. The study controlled health-care expenditures, logistics performance index (LPI), carbon damages, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) to understand the nature of causation between the CFR and stated factors.

Design/methodology/approach

The study used a cross-sectional regression apparatus for coefficient estimates and variance decomposition analysis (VDA) for forecasting relationships between the variables over time.

Findings

The results confirmed the W-shaped relationship between CFR and case-to-test ratio (CTR) in the presence of a LPI that exacerbates the CFR cases across countries. The VDA estimates suggest that carbon damages, logistics activities, and CSR are likely to influence CFR over time.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the study is believed to be the first study that assesses the W-shaped relationship between the CFR and CTR in the presence of dynamic variables, which helps to formulate long-term sustainable health-care policies worldwide.

Citation

Sasmoko, Lodhi, M.S., Aziz, A.R.A., Bandar, N.F.A., Embong, R., Jabor, M.K., Anis, S.N.M. and Zaman, K. (2022), "Health-care preventive measures, logistics challenges and corporate social responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic: break the ice", Foresight, Vol. 24 No. 5, pp. 586-595. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-05-2021-0098