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The global coronavirus pandemic spread throughout 2020, with countries in Europe experiencing tremendous socioeconomic impacts, including a cliff-like drop in citizens’ mobility, overcrowding of hospitals in metropolitan cities, an economic recession, massive furloughs and an increase in unemployment, as well as a significant transition to more remote working.
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“Regional” here refers to multiple-country regions.
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“Within-country regional” here refers to regions within a specific country, which is bigger than provincial and smaller than national.
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Human Development Index (HDI) measuring average achievement in basic dimensions of human development including long and healthy life (technical notes, http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020_technical_notes.pdf).
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Li, Y. (2021). Health Resilience Among European Countries in the Face of Pandemic: Reflections on European Countries’ Preparedness for COVID-19. In: Shaw, SL., Sui, D. (eds) Mapping COVID-19 in Space and Time. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72808-3_16
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