Regional differences in COVID-19 ICU admission rates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A simulation of the new model of care under vision 2030

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia espoused “Vision 2030” as a strategy for economic development and national growth. The vision demonstrated the Kingdom’s objectives to become a pioneer nation globally by achieving three main goals: a vibrant society, a thriving economy, and an ambitious nation. To fulfill this, the Kingdom launched a national transformation program (NTP) as outlined in “vision 2030” in June 2016. The health care transformation is one of the eight themes of the NTP’s. The history of health care facilities in the Kingdom is almost a century. Although the Kingdom has made notable progress in improving its population’s health over recent decades, it needs to modernize the health care system to reach the “vision 2030” goal. This article aims to describe the new Model of Care (MOC) according to the recent Saudi health care transformation under the Kingdom’s vision 2030. The MOC concept started with understanding the current state and collecting learnings. It is based on the six systems of care (SOC)- keeping well, planned procedure, women & children, urgent problems, chronic conditions, and the last phase of life. The SOC is cut across different “service layers” to support people’s stay well and efficiently get them healthy again when they need care. The new MOC describes a total of forty-two interventions, of which twenty-seven split across the six SOC and the rest fifteen cut-across the multiple SOC. Implementation of all MOC interventions will streamline the Saudi health care system to embrace the Kingdom’s “vision 2030”.

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An analytical study of Insurance Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its compatibility with Vision 2030

The Academic Journal of Contemporary Commercial Research ◽

10.21608/ajccr.2021.211513 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 75-85

Author(s):

Mohamed Saber ◽

Moamen Atef Mohammed Ali

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Analytical Study ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Insurance Sector ◽

Vision 2030

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(The Role of Transport and Tourism Economics in Achieving the Economic Development of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the Period (2007-2017: دور اقتصاديات النقل والسياحة في تحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية للمملكة العربية السعودية للمدة (2007- 2017)

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم الاقتصادية والإدارية والقانونية ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.b010519 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (9) ◽

Author(s):

Ban Ali Hussein Al Mahanadi

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Transport Sector ◽

Retail Sector ◽

Relative Importance ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

Religious Tourism ◽

Vision 2030 ◽

Tourism Activity

The transport sector in its various forms, has an important weight in tourist activity, it is a direct producer that deserves direct planning. It is coordinated with the objectives of the comprehensive tourism plan. Also, it is an important factor in the tourism industry where depend on it to transport tourists from outside their places of residence to the tourist destination. An analysis of the reality of transport and tourism activity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia shows the relative importance of the transport and communications sector, the relative importance of the retail sector, restaurants and hotels, the highest level of passenger services, In addition, there is the presence of religious tourism as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia benefits from the influx of millions of Muslim pilgrims from all over the world to perform Hajj rituals annually and Umrah every day. And to see the archaeological sites and the holiest Bekaa in the Holy Haram area where in 2017 religious tourism attracted more than 8 million Muslim visitors, around 3 million came to perform Hajj. According to the National Transition Program, the Ministry of Hajj is committed to achieving the goal of providing the greatest possible number of Muslims to perform Hajj and Umrah. The end of this ministry is to increase the number of pilgrims from outside Saudi Arabia to 15 million by 2020 compared to 2017 (6.8 million) And according to Vision 2030, this number will double to 30 million by 2030, This is due to major growth in the fields of living accommodations, wellness maintenance, advanced shipping, retail and infrastructure. Equally part of its vision for growing the tourism sector and diversifying the sources of income, it intends to implement the first two projects, the Red Sea project and the second project of the city of Neum.

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Representing Kingdom’s Makeover after Vision 2030: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of American Media Discourse

10.31235/osf.io/jrz29 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ansa Hameed ◽

Ismat Jabeen ◽

Naeem Afzal

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Quantitative Study ◽

The Other ◽

Western World ◽

Media Discourse ◽

Mainstream Economic ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

The World ◽

American Media ◽

Vision 2030

Saudi Vision 2030 is a scheme; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has formulated to realize its mainstream economic, social, and administrative goals. Accordingly, the Kingdom strategizes to implement this transformative Vision. The current research aims to analyze how American media has reported several events, actions, and policies in line with Saudi Vision 2030. Thus, the question posed is how an image of the transformative Saudi Kingdom has been presented by American media discourse, in line with Vision 2030. The study is substantial for the Kingdom to ascertain how the world has responded to its Vision. Moreover, in a world with media as a dominant directing agency, it is imperious for the Kingdom to keep an eye on its image in the global community. The research is primarily a quantitative study based on the corpus approach to study the designated media discourse. A specialized corpus of 150,000 words is compiled and analyzed through a variety of corpus tools. The results reveal that American newspapers have given limited representation of the Vision and related activities. Their media usually highlights the pre-existing features of the Kingdom. On the other hand, there are very occasional references to some new aspects like the transformation of the economy, promotion of tourism, revision of the society, etc., which are being implemented in the Kingdom. The study suggests that the Kingdom needs to brief the Western world for an enriched campaign of its contemporary image.

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Branding The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Social and Management Research Journal ◽

10.24191/smrj.v18i1.12370 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Ibrahim Alsedrah

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Literature Review ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

The Other ◽

Country Image ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Country Branding ◽

Vision 2030 ◽

Image Identity ◽

Secondary Information

Country branding is a systematic process of organising the country's actions, behaviour, investments, innovations, and communications to achieve a desirable reputation. On the other hand, the country image represents the stereotyping of a country that does not always represent its identity, and that is the case of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Despite KSA's achievements, especially after the 2030 ambitious vision, it is mostly perceived as an oil-producing country. Therefore, this study aims to: review the concept of country image, identity, and branding examples, as well as evaluate the KSA current brand based on secondary information. The author uses a relevant literature review to explore the topic. This paper finds (1) a lack of a strategic plan, studies, and suggest the establishment of branding authority in KSA. (2) Branding KSA is highly essential for two reasons: First, Branding will help KSA to highlight the 2030 vision successes and extend its image beyond the traditional perception. Second, branding is significant, especially with the current competition between countries. The paper may be first to bring attention to the importance of country branding in the KSA context. Keywords: country branding, country image, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, vision 2030

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Does Saudi Arabia Benefit From China’s Belt and Road Initiative?

Journal of Management and Strategy ◽

10.5430/jms.v11n1p1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Khaled Mohammed Alqahtani

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Research Question ◽

Belt And Road Initiative ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Main Research ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Vision 2030 ◽

Belt And Road ◽

Common Interests ◽

Trade Deals

The People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enjoy close and friendly relations and share broad common interests-regardless of their ideological differences, evident in their names. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is aimed at developing infrastructure projects and declining transportation costs to interlink cross-border trade deals between China and countries along the routes. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a central hub connecting Asia, Africa and Europe, has been a significant part of the initiative. Moreover, Saudi Arabia is one of the first countries that have responded positively to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI brings China much closer to Saudi Arabia. As BRI’s linchpin in the Middle East, dose Saudi Arabia benefit from this initiative? Based on the elaborate analysis of main research question, this study reveals that the BRI offers great potential opportunities for the Kingdom in terms of infrastructure construction, energy cooperation, technology and finance, culture exchange, security and defense. In addition, China could collaborate with Saudi Arabia in a significant number of sectors where Saudi and Chinese strengths are complementary. The deeper Sino-Saudi cooperation can also brighten the prospects for Saudi Vision 2030.

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Survival and Estimation of Direct Medical Costs of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17207458 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (20) ◽

pp. 7458 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anas Khan ◽

Yazed AlRuthia ◽

Bander Balkhi ◽

Sultan Alghadeer ◽

Mohamad-Hani Temsah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Proportional Hazards ◽

Medical Costs ◽

Cox Proportional Hazards ◽

Mechanical Ventilators ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

General Medical Ward ◽

Icu Admission ◽

Direct Medical Costs ◽

Hospitalization Costs

Objectives: Assess the survival of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients across age groups, sex, use of mechanical ventilators (MVs), nationality, and intensive care unit (ICU) admission in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: Data were retrieved from the Saudi Ministry of Health (MoH) between 1 March and 29 May 2020. Kaplan–Meier (KM) analyses and multiple Cox proportional-hazards regression were conducted to assess the survival of hospitalized COVID-19 patients from hospital admission to discharge (censored) or death. Micro-costing was used to estimate the direct medical costs associated with hospitalization per patient. Results: The number of included patients with complete status (discharge or death) was 1422. The overall 14-day survival was 0.699 (95%CI: 0.652–0.741). Older adults (>70 years) (HR = 5.00, 95%CI = 2.83–8.91), patients on MVs (5.39, 3.83–7.64), non-Saudi patients (1.37, 1.01–1.89), and ICU admission (2.09, 1.49–2.93) were associated with a high risk of mortality. The mean cost per patient (in SAR) for those admitted to the general Medical Ward (GMW) and ICU was 42,704.49 ± 29,811.25 and 79,418.30 ± 55,647.69, respectively. Conclusion: The high hospitalization costs for COVID-19 patients represents a significant public health challenge. Efficient allocation of healthcare resources cannot be emphasized enough.

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Zakat and taxes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Al-Rashad Journal of Islamic Finance ◽

10.46722/ajif.1.2.21d ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 50-89

Author(s):

Walaa Abazaid

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Islamic Law ◽

National Income ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Tax System ◽

Vision 2030 ◽

Ministry Of Finance ◽

The Government

Within the framework of Vision 2030, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia strives to achieve good national income through an effective tax system. This tax system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia encompasses taxes that are inflicted by the government and zakat imposed by Islamic law. The tax and zakat system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is supervised by the General Authority for Zakat and Income and operates under the authority of the Ministry of Finance, but the authorities responsible for looking into tax disputes still confront problems and difficulties during the performance of their work, especially in disputes related to sharia consulting. Since the importance of the tax and zakat fund in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is great and the relatively high imports it achieves, the aim of this research is to study the structure of the tax and zakat system and the mechanism of work of the bodies responsible for settling tax and zakat dispute by relying on literary reviews of previous researches and official publications allocated for the General Authority for Tax and Zakat, besides the laws correlated to the tax and zakat system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The research concluded that there are a set of weaknesses in the mechanism of work of the authorities and committees who are responsible for deciphering tax and zakat disputes, and a set of proposals have been proposed to improve the performance of these committees.

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