Community factors and excess mortality in the COVID-19 pandemic in England, Italy and Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Analyses of coronavirus disease 19 suggest specific risk factors make communities more or less vulnerable to pandemic-related deaths within countries. What is unclear is whether the characteristics affecting vulnerability of small communities within countries produce similar patterns of excess mortality across countries with different demographics and public health responses to the pandemic. Our aim is to quantify community-level variations in excess mortality within England, Italy and Sweden and identify how such spatial variability was driven by community-level characteristics.

Methods

We applied a two-stage Bayesian model to quantify inequalities in excess mortality in people aged 40 years and older at the community level in England, Italy and Sweden during the

SUBMITTER: Parkes B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10393497 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature