The average number of years that a new-born could expect to live, if he or she were to pass through life exposed to the sex- and age-specific death rates prevailing at the time of his or her birth, for a specific year, in a given country, territory, or geographic area ( WHO, 2022d ).
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Analyzing the Global Economy in the Post-Pandemic Recovery: Is the Recovery Near or Not?
Özlem Özsoy (Izmir Ekol Hospital, Turkey) and Metin Gürler (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 57
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3749-0.ch009
Abstract
More than two years have passed since the new type of coronavirus began in Wuhan, China. In addition, it has been more than 22 months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic, and the world continues to struggle with new variants of the virus and cannot return to the old normal. Closures, lockdowns, and restrictions on foreign trade of goods and services have decreased global economic activity. It is seen that two important challenges have emerged due to the pandemic. First, the countries with limited health services capacity in the face of the increasing number of cases and deaths in the world had trouble to combat with the pandemic. Second, low-income countries which have difficulty in accessing medicines and vaccines having an important role in combating the pandemic are more distressed than other countries and need global support. It is seen that the inequality in income distribution between countries in the world also manifests itself in accessing drugs and vaccines.