Title :

Using COVID-19 mortality to select among hospital plant capacity models: An exploratory empirical application to Hubei province

Author(s) :

Kerstens, Kristiaan [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Shen, Zhiyang [Auteur]

Journal title :

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Pages :

120535

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2021-05

ISSN :

0040-1625

English keyword(s) :

Data envelopment analysis
Free disposal hull
Efficiency
Plant capacity utilization
Mortality

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

English abstract : [en]

This contribution defines short- and long-run output- and input-oriented plant capacity measures and evaluates them relative to convex and nonconvex technologies. By applying these different plant capacity concepts, the ...
Show more >This contribution defines short- and long-run output- and input-oriented plant capacity measures and evaluates them relative to convex and nonconvex technologies. By applying these different plant capacity concepts, the authors seek to measure the use of existing capacities, as well as the evolution and build-up of extra hospital capacity in the Chinese province of Hubei during the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in early 2020. Furthermore, medical literature has established that mortality rates increase with high capacity utilization rates, an insight that this study leverages to select the most plausible of eight plant capacity concepts. The preliminary results indicate that a relatively new, input-oriented plant capacity concept correlates best with mortality.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Lille Économie Management (LEM) - UMR 9221

Source :

Harvested from HAL