TY - JOUR
T1 - Informal Settlements, Pandemic and Consequences
T2 - A Cross-Country Analysis
AU - Amidu, Mohammed
AU - Ahenkan, Albert
AU - Mensah, James Kwame
AU - Bawole, Justice Nyigmah
AU - Issahaku, Haruna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Indian Institute of Health Management Research.
PY - 2024/11
Y1 - 2024/11
N2 - This article focused on the informal settlements and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations using a data set that covers many countries. We sample 47 cross-country data and employ political ecology and economic contagion to empirically respond to two related questions: What is the impact of pandemics on informal settlement dwellers? How can governments address pandemics among informal settlement dwellers? Our results show that the risk factors for informal settlements concerning COVID-19 include the degree of trade openness, the death rate, family size, population density, geography and airport activity. This article offers several innovations on measures, determinants and the impact of pandemics on vulnerable populations across the globe. By extension, our results have important policy implications for governments in addressing the inequalities between formal and informal settlements during pandemics.
AB - This article focused on the informal settlements and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations using a data set that covers many countries. We sample 47 cross-country data and employ political ecology and economic contagion to empirically respond to two related questions: What is the impact of pandemics on informal settlement dwellers? How can governments address pandemics among informal settlement dwellers? Our results show that the risk factors for informal settlements concerning COVID-19 include the degree of trade openness, the death rate, family size, population density, geography and airport activity. This article offers several innovations on measures, determinants and the impact of pandemics on vulnerable populations across the globe. By extension, our results have important policy implications for governments in addressing the inequalities between formal and informal settlements during pandemics.
KW - contagion
KW - COVID-19
KW - Informal settlements
KW - pandemic
KW - vulnerable population
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85210756267&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/09720634241297448
DO - 10.1177/09720634241297448
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85210756267
SN - 0972-0634
VL - 26
SP - 763
EP - 775
JO - Journal of Health Management
JF - Journal of Health Management
IS - 5
ER -