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COVID-19 mortality and deprivation: pandemic, syndemic, and endemic health inequalities
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COVID-19 has exacerbated endemic health inequalities resulting in a syndemic pandemic of higher mortality and morbidity rates among the most socially disadvantaged. We did a scoping review to identify and synthesise published evidence on geographical inequalities in COVID-19 mortality rates globally. We included peer-reviewed studies, from any country, written in English that showed any area-level (eg, neighbourhood, town, city, municipality, or region) inequalities in mortality by socioeconomic deprivation (ie, measured via indices of multiple deprivation: the percentage of people living in poverty or proxy factors including the Gini coefficient, employment rates, or housing tenure). 95 papers from five WHO global regions were included in the final synthesis. A large majority of the studies (n=86) found that COVID-19 mortality rates were higher in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage than in affluent areas. The subsequent discussion reflects on how the unequal nature of the pandemic has resulted from a syndemic of COVID-19 and endemic inequalities in chronic disease burden.
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- Authors
- McGowan, V. J., & Bambra, C.
- Venue
- The Lancet Public Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-11
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- e966-e975
- ISSN
- 2468-2667 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4308328354
- Cited by
- 292
- References
- 144
- FWCI
- 45.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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