The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore

Starting in early 2020, countries around the world imposed mitigation measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19 including social distancing; closing public transport, schools, and non-essential businesses; enhanced hygiene; face masks; temperature monitoring; quarantining; and contact tracing. The...

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Main Authors: Daly, Patrick, Nejad, Amin Shoari, Domijan, Katarina, McCaughey, Jamie W., Brassard, Caroline, Kathiravelu, Laavanya, Marques, Mateus, Sarti, Danilo, Parnell, Andrew C., Horton, Benjamin Peter
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1820982025-01-13T15:30:53Z The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore Daly, Patrick Nejad, Amin Shoari Domijan, Katarina McCaughey, Jamie W. Brassard, Caroline Kathiravelu, Laavanya Marques, Mateus Sarti, Danilo Parnell, Andrew C. Horton, Benjamin Peter Asian School of the Environment School of Social Sciences Earth Observatory of Singapore Social Sciences COVID-19 Vulnerability Starting in early 2020, countries around the world imposed mitigation measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19 including social distancing; closing public transport, schools, and non-essential businesses; enhanced hygiene; face masks; temperature monitoring; quarantining; and contact tracing. These mitigation measures helped reduce loss of life, but also disrupted the lives of billions of people. Here we assess whether mitigation measures used to manage a disaster can also have negative impacts that disproportionately burden vulnerable sub-sets of a population. We use data from a survey of Singaporean citizens and permanent residents during the lockdown period between April and July 2020 to evaluate the social and economic impacts of Singapore's COVID-19 mitigation measures. Our results show that over 60 % of the population experienced negative impacts on their social lives and 40 % on household economics. Bayesian Hierarchical Logistic Regress reveals that the negative economic impacts of the mitigation measures were partly influenced by socio-economic and demographic factors that align with underlying societal vulnerabilities. Our findings suggest that when dealing with large-scale crisis' such as COVID-19, slow-onset disasters, and climate change, some of the burdens of mitigation measure can constitute a crisis in their own right which could disproportionately impact vulnerable segments of the population. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version This research is supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its MOE AcRF Tier 3 Award MOE-MOET32022-0006. ASN, KD, MM, DS, and AP were supported by a Science Foundation Ireland COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant number 20/COV/0081. 2025-01-07T07:40:55Z 2025-01-07T07:40:55Z 2024 Journal Article Daly, P., Nejad, A. S., Domijan, K., McCaughey, J. W., Brassard, C., Kathiravelu, L., Marques, M., Sarti, D., Parnell, A. C. & Horton, B. P. (2024). The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore. Progress in Disaster Science, 24, 100377-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100377 2590-0617 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182098 10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100377 2-s2.0-85207111340 24 100377 en MOE-MOET32022-0006 Progress in Disaster Science © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/). application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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country Singapore
Singapore
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language English
topic Social Sciences
COVID-19
Vulnerability
spellingShingle Social Sciences
COVID-19
Vulnerability
Daly, Patrick
Nejad, Amin Shoari
Domijan, Katarina
McCaughey, Jamie W.
Brassard, Caroline
Kathiravelu, Laavanya
Marques, Mateus
Sarti, Danilo
Parnell, Andrew C.
Horton, Benjamin Peter
The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore
description Starting in early 2020, countries around the world imposed mitigation measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19 including social distancing; closing public transport, schools, and non-essential businesses; enhanced hygiene; face masks; temperature monitoring; quarantining; and contact tracing. These mitigation measures helped reduce loss of life, but also disrupted the lives of billions of people. Here we assess whether mitigation measures used to manage a disaster can also have negative impacts that disproportionately burden vulnerable sub-sets of a population. We use data from a survey of Singaporean citizens and permanent residents during the lockdown period between April and July 2020 to evaluate the social and economic impacts of Singapore's COVID-19 mitigation measures. Our results show that over 60 % of the population experienced negative impacts on their social lives and 40 % on household economics. Bayesian Hierarchical Logistic Regress reveals that the negative economic impacts of the mitigation measures were partly influenced by socio-economic and demographic factors that align with underlying societal vulnerabilities. Our findings suggest that when dealing with large-scale crisis' such as COVID-19, slow-onset disasters, and climate change, some of the burdens of mitigation measure can constitute a crisis in their own right which could disproportionately impact vulnerable segments of the population.
author2 Asian School of the Environment
author_facet Asian School of the Environment
Daly, Patrick
Nejad, Amin Shoari
Domijan, Katarina
McCaughey, Jamie W.
Brassard, Caroline
Kathiravelu, Laavanya
Marques, Mateus
Sarti, Danilo
Parnell, Andrew C.
Horton, Benjamin Peter
format Article
author Daly, Patrick
Nejad, Amin Shoari
Domijan, Katarina
McCaughey, Jamie W.
Brassard, Caroline
Kathiravelu, Laavanya
Marques, Mateus
Sarti, Danilo
Parnell, Andrew C.
Horton, Benjamin Peter
author_sort Daly, Patrick
title The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore
title_short The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore
title_full The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore
title_fullStr The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore
title_sort socio-economic impacts of the covid-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in singapore
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