Muhammad Sajjad|Syed Hassan Raza|Asad Abbas Shah
Assessing Response Readiness to Health Emergencies: A Spatial Evaluation of Health and Socio-Economic Justice in Pakistan
Hong Kong Baptist University|Quaid-i-Azam University|Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
covid19 pandemic put global health emergency response test providing health socioeconomic justice across communitiesregions helps resilient response study geographic information systemsbased framework proposed demonstrated context public healthrelated hazards pandemic response face covid19 indicators relevant health system hs socioeconomic conditions sc utilized compute response readiness index rri frequency histograms analysis variance approaches applied analyze distribution response readiness integrate spatial distributional models explore geographicallyvarying patterns response readiness pinpointing priority intervention areas context crossregional health socioeconomic justice frameworks application demonstrated using pakistans developed populous province namely punjab districts scale n 36 case study results show 45 indicators achieve belowaverage scores value 061 including four hs five sc findings ascertain maximum districts lack health facilities hospital beds health insurance hs 50 lack communication means literacyrates essential times emergencies crossregional assessment shows northsouth spatial heterogeneity southern punjab vulnerable covidlike situations dera ghazi khan muzaffargarh identified statistically significant hotspots response incompetency 95 confidence critical study policy implications context decisionmaking resource allocation strategy formulation health emergency response ie covid19 improve community health resilience