Social epidemiology of urban COVID-19 inequalities in Latin America and Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread through pre-existing fault lines in societies, deepening structural barriers faced by precarious workers, low-income populations, and racialized communities in lower income sub-city units. Many studies have quantified the magnitude of inequalities in COVID-19 distribution within cities, but few have taken an international comparative approach to draw inferences on the ways urban epidemics are shaped by social determinants of health.

Methods

Guided by critical epidemiology, this study quantifies sub-city unit-level COVID-19 inequalities across eight of the largest metropolitan areas of Latin America and Canada. Leveraging new open-data sources, we use concentration indices to quantify income- and vulnerability-related inequalities i

SUBMITTER: Poirier MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11484103 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature