Welcome to the forum and kudos for choosing an important topic for your thesis! I’ll leave the more technical components to people with relevant expertise but the literature review seems like it can be broadened without too much effort.
If you’ve come across interesting papers on the utility or limitations of the GHSI, please share them!
Per this request, here’s a non-exhaustive list of papers about the GHSI and COVID-19 to get you started. They each cover one of either utility or limitations of GHSI.
A Google Scholar query for “global health security index covid” surfaces some I didn’t include because they were from 2020 (except for the second one, which looked at countries’ response times and thus had already been sort of settled by the time the paper came out) but if you still want to look at those it would be good to look through at least the first 2 results pages.
How you choose to go about integrating them into your broader point is up to you. Best of luck!
Welcome to the forum and kudos for choosing an important topic for your thesis! I’ll leave the more technical components to people with relevant expertise but the literature review seems like it can be broadened without too much effort.
Per this request, here’s a non-exhaustive list of papers about the GHSI and COVID-19 to get you started. They each cover one of either utility or limitations of GHSI.
Casualties of preparedness: the Global Health Security Index and COVID-19
The Global Health Security index and Joint External Evaluation score for health preparedness are not correlated with countries’ COVID-19 detection response time and mortality outcome
Global Health Security Index Scores are associated with Covid-19 Pandemic Health and Macroeconomic Outcomes
Are we ready to deal with a global COVID-19 pandemic? Rethinking countries’ capacity based on the Global Health Security Index
Global Health Security Index not a proven surrogate for health systems capacity to respond to pandemics: The case of COVID-19
A Google Scholar query for “global health security index covid” surfaces some I didn’t include because they were from 2020 (except for the second one, which looked at countries’ response times and thus had already been sort of settled by the time the paper came out) but if you still want to look at those it would be good to look through at least the first 2 results pages.
How you choose to go about integrating them into your broader point is up to you. Best of luck!