Social inequalities and COVID-19 mortality between neighborhoods of Bariloche city, Argentina.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how intraurban inequalities are likely to reinforce health and social inequalities. Studies at small area level help to visualize social inequialities hidden in large areas as cities or regions.

Aim

To describe the spatial patterning of COVID-19 death rates in neighborhoods of the medium-sized city of Bariloche, Argentina, and to explore its relationship with the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods.

Methods

We conducted an ecological study in Bariloche, Argentina. The outcome was counts of COVID-19 deaths between June 2020 and May 2022 obtained from the surveillance system and georeferenced to neighborhoods. We estimated crude- and age-adjusted death rates by neighborhood using a Bayesian approach through a Poisson

SUBMITTER: Perner MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10537962 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature