scholarly journals Efecto de factores socio-económicos y condiciones de salud en el contagio de COVID-19 en los estados de México

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Pablo Mejía Reyes ◽  
Annel Hurtado Jaramillo ◽  
Liliana Rendón Rojas

<pre>El objetivo de este documento es analizar el impacto de múltiples factores demográficos, sociales, de salud y económicos en la magnitud e intensidad del contagio de SARS-CoV-2 en los estados mexicanos. Para ello se desarrolla un análisis de límites extremos (extreme-bounds analysis) en modelos de regresión de corte transversal, que pueden incluir efectos espaciales. Los resultados sugieren que una mayor densidad de población (que dificulta el distanciamiento social), el padecimiento de obesidad y/o enfermedades crónico-degenerativas (diabetes e hipertensión) y el no respeto a las disposiciones sanitarias han favorecido el contagio de COVID-19. Las condiciones sociales de la población y las características económicas de los estados no resultaron relevantes. Las implicaciones de política pública que se derivan de este resultado son directas. </pre><div> </div>

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zubair Mumtaz ◽  
Zachary A Smith ◽  
Ather Maqsood Ahmed

2020 ◽  
pp. 073889422091136
Author(s):  
Joshua Tschantret

Democracy is one of the most consistent predictors of terrorism. Yet we know little about why there is an apparent relationship between terrorism and democracy. In this article, I argue that previous democratic breakdown is a significant predictor of terrorism. While democratic civil liberties increase the opportunity to carry out terrorist attacks, they do not explain why groups are motivated to use terrorism rather than legal means for implementing change. Democratic breakdown, however, creates grievances that motivate terrorism by excluding groups with full rights of participation from the political process. Such grievances, which persist over long periods of time, will lead to high levels of terrorism once the regime re-democratizes, since the motivation for political violence is combined with the opportunities provided by democratic civil liberties. Cross-national statistical evidence from 1970 to 2007 lends strong support for this argument. It further demonstrates that only democracies that have experienced democratic breakdown experience more terrorism than autocracies. Moreover, an extreme bounds analysis indicates that previous democratic breakdown is one of the most robust predictors of terrorism and the most robust among variables conceptually related to democracy.


2010 ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Edward E. Leamer

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