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

• Main Authors: Sasmoko, ., Muhammad Saeed, Lodhi, Abdul Rashid, Abdul Aziz, Nur Fatihah, Abdullah Bandar, Rahimah, Embong, Mohd Khata, Jabor, Siti Nisrin, Mohd Anis, Khalid, Zaman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Emerald Publishing Limited 2021
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36444/1/Abdullah%20Bandar.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36444/; https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-05-2021-0098/full/html

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.