Monitoring Covid-19 Policy Interventions

Paolo Giudici; Emanuela Raffinetti

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00438

Monitoring Covid-19 Policy Interventions

Front Public Health. 2020 Aug 26:8:438. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00438. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Paolo Giudici¹, Emanuela Raffinetti²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
² Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Abstract

A very key point in the process of the Covid-19 contagion control is the introduction of effective policy measures, whose results have to be continuously monitored through accurate statistical analysis. To this aim we propose an innovative statistical tool, based on the Gini-Lorenz concentration approach, which can reveal how well a country is doing in reducing the growth of contagion, and its speed.

Keywords: concentration curve; contagion growth; health policy interventions; reproduction rate number; statistical models.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Policy
SARS-CoV-2