Excess Deaths in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Healthy Places Index Quartile, February 2020-April 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Place-based disadvantage indices have been used to assess health disparities and allocate funding and health resources. We assessed excess mortality in California during the COVID-19 pandemic by Healthy Places Index (HPI) quartile, a disadvantage index used by the California Department of Public Health to structure COVID-19 response efforts.

Methods

We estimated expected deaths from all causes during the COVID-19 pandemic by fitting a quasi-Poisson regression model to actual deaths that occurred from 2014 through 2019. We estimated ranges of excess deaths by calculating differences between actual deaths and (1) the average expected number of deaths and (2) the upper bound of the 95% prediction interval. The percentage of excess deaths equaled the number of excess

SUBMITTER: Romano CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12040852 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature