In recent years, countries have been fighting with increasing momentum against outbreaks. This struggle requires the effective implementation of several measures that are required in medical science. However, the cultural characteristics of each society prevent these measures from being applied in the same way globally. One area in which social scientists have not applied much effort is observing the impact of countries' cultural characteristics in the fight against outbreaks. Therefore, this study aims to determine whether cultural differences among countries have an impact on their fight against outbreaks. This study uses the COVID-19 pandemic’s total cases and selected European countries’ cultural dimension scores as data. Due to the differences in the measurement units of cultural and outbreak variables, a stepwise multiple logarithmic regression analysis is preferred to select the proper regression model. The results have shown that power distance has a significant and negative effect on the increase rate of the total COVID-19 cases per million (IRTCCPM). In addition, the results have demonstrated that both individualism and indulgence have significant and positive effects on IRTCCPM, at the 95 % confidence level. However, the hypotheses concerning the impacts of masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation on the IRTCCPM are rejected at the α = 0.05 level. In light of the findings of this study, it can be asserted that countries act in harmony with their cultural characteristics in the formal or informal practices of their fight against outbreaks. The contributions of the study can be discussed in academic and practical fields.

近年来，各国一直在以日益增长的势头与疫情作斗争。这项斗争要求有效地执行医学科学中需要的几种措施。但是，每个社会的文化特征使这些措施无法在全球范围内以相同的方式应用。社会科学家没有付出太多努力的领域之一就是观察国家文化特征在抗击疫情中的影响。因此，本研究旨在确定国家之间的文化差异是否会影响其抗击疫情的爆发。这项研究使用了COVID-19大流行的总病例数和所选欧洲国家的文化维度得分作为数据。由于文化变量和爆发变量的度量单位不同，最好采用逐步多对数回归分析来选择适当的回归模型。结果表明，权力距离对每百万COVID-19案例总数（IRTCCPM）的增长率具有显着的负面影响。此外，结果表明，个人主义和放纵对IRTCCPM都有显着而积极的影响，置信度为95％。但是，关于男性气质，避免不确定性和长期取向对IRTCCPM的影响的假设在α= 0.05的水平上被拒绝。根据这项研究的结果，可以断言，各国在其抗击疫情的正式或非正式做法中均与其文化特征相协调。该研究的贡献可以在学术和实践领域进行讨论。