Effectiveness of Applying HEALTH-EDRM Framework: A Comparison of the COVID-19 Situation in Asia-Oceania Countries and Territories

Abstract

Millions of people in the countries around the world are suffering due to one of the most dangerous disasters the Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. This research has the main objective to see the effectiveness of the HEALTH-EDRM framework from the World Health Organization (WHO) for dealing with the COVID-19 situation. The data set from the two popular online sources which are ourworldindata.org and worldmeter.info are collected and used for performing the analysis. The $t$-Test analysis method is used as the main tool for performing the analysis based on the 3 hypotheses related to the COVID-19 situation in Asia-Oceania countries. The result shows a significantly higher effectiveness in the member states which applied the HEALTH-EDRM for dealing with the COVID-19 affected cases, but not with the COVID-19 death cases.