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PoPStat-COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19
Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake, Lelumi Edirisinghe +8
Understanding how population age structure shapes COVID-19 burden is crucial for pandemic preparedness, yet common summary measures such as median age ignore key distributional fea…
Devising PoPStat: A Metric Bridging Population Pyramids with Global Disease Mortality
Tharaka Fonseka, Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake +7
Understanding the relationship between population dynamics and disease-specific mortality is central to evidence-based health policy. This study introduces two novel metrics, PoPDi…
A generalized forecasting solution to enable future insights of COVID-19 at sub-national level resolutions
Umar Marikkar, Harshana Weligampola, Rumali Perera +9
COVID-19 continues to cause a significant impact on public health. To minimize this impact, policy makers undertake containment measures that however, when carried out disproportio…
Spatial analysis of COVID-19 and socio-economic factors in Sri Lanka
Rumali Perera, Harshana Weligampola, Umar Marikkar +6
The spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic affected Sri Lanka similar to how it affected other countries across the globe. The Sri Lankan government took many preventive measures t…