Occupational role and COVID-19 among foreign-born healthcare workers in Sweden: a registry-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many studies report that foreign-born healthcare workers (HCWs) in high-income countries have an elevated risk of COVID-19. However, research has not yet specifically evaluated the distribution of COVID-19 among foreign-born workers in different healthcare work groups. We examined the risk of COVID-19 infection and hospitalization among foreign-born HCWs in different occupational roles in Sweden.

Methods

We linked occupational data (2019) of 783 950 employed foreign-born workers (20-65 years) to COVID-19 data registered between 1 January 2020 and 30 September 2021. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) of COVID-19 infection and hospitalization in eight healthcare occupational groups vs

SUBMITTER: Nwaru C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10066486 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature