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南非东开普省因新冠病毒而加剧的社会经济状况。

Socioeconomic conditions exacerbated by the coronavirus in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

作者信息

Raphela Tlou D, Tjantjies Sinoyolo

机构信息

Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

出版信息

Front Public Health. 2025 Apr 22;13:1526309. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1526309. eCollection 2025.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

South Africa, like most developing countries, made some efforts to attain the Sustainable Development Goals by endeavoring to reduce individuals' susceptibility to socio-economic hardships. However, the COVID-19 pandemic eroded most of those efforts. In this seemingly helpless situation, it is apparent that the coronavirus has compromised the commendable strides made toward achieving some of the efforts toward attaining some of these Sustainable Development Goals. This article, therefore, analyses the socioeconomic conditions exacerbated by COVID-19 on the East Coast of South Africa.

METHODOLOGY

The study adopted a quantitative research-method approach to quantify this socio-economic disparities and applied, descriptive statistics, chi-squared test of independence, and regression to analyse the data collected using a semi-structured questionnaire survey at a rural community in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Simple random sampling was adopted for this study and Statistical Package for Social Scientists was used to analyse the data collected.

RESULTS

There was no significant relationship when the question of whether the municipality has adequately implemented measures to ensure the socio-economic protection of communities was regressed with other 3 Likert scale questions (χ = 95.98; df = 77; = 0.07; = 38.0%). A series of Chi-square tests did not reveal any statistically significant difference in five demographic variables and the variables they were correlated with ( > 0.05). However, there was a statistically significant difference between most questions relating to the effectiveness of the COVID-19 response strategies the municipality employed and participants' response to unmet community social needs (X = 35.754; df = 14; = 0.001).

DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

This study, therefore, revealed that social significance does not necessarily mean statistically significant following the results of the insignificant chi-squared test for the socio-economic and demographic variables. This study also sheds light on the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the socioeconomic landscape of the East Coast of South Africa. Despite commendable strides toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals aimed at reducing vulnerabilities to socio-economic hardships, the pandemic has presented daunting challenges, disrupting progress and exacerbating existing inequalities coupled with efforts of the study Municipalities strategies.

摘要

引言

与大多数发展中国家一样,南非为实现可持续发展目标做出了一些努力,致力于降低个人对社会经济困境的易感性。然而,新冠疫情破坏了其中大部分努力。在这种看似无助的情况下,冠状病毒显然已经损害了在实现其中一些可持续发展目标方面所取得的值得称赞的进展。因此,本文分析了新冠疫情加剧的南非东海岸的社会经济状况。

方法

该研究采用定量研究方法来量化这种社会经济差异,并应用描述性统计、独立性卡方检验和回归分析,对在南非东开普省一个农村社区通过半结构化问卷调查收集的数据进行分析。本研究采用简单随机抽样,并使用社会科学统计软件包来分析所收集的数据。

结果

当将市政府是否充分实施措施以确保社区社会经济保护这一问题与其他3个李克特量表问题进行回归分析时,未发现显著关系(χ = 95.98;自由度 = 77;P = 0.07;效应量 = 38.0%)。一系列卡方检验未揭示五个人口统计学变量及其相关变量之间存在任何统计学显著差异(P > 0.05)。然而,在与市政府所采用的新冠疫情应对策略的有效性相关的大多数问题与参与者对未满足的社区社会需求的反应之间,存在统计学显著差异(X = 35.754;自由度 = 14;P = 0.001)。

讨论与结论

因此,根据社会经济和人口统计学变量的卡方检验结果不显著,本研究表明社会显著性不一定意味着统计学显著性。本研究还揭示了新冠疫情对南非东海岸社会经济格局的深远影响。尽管在实现旨在减少社会经济困境脆弱性的可持续发展目标方面取得了值得称赞的进展,但疫情带来了严峻挑战,扰乱了进展并加剧了现有不平等,同时也涉及到研究中市政府策略的努力。

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