Air pollution, sociodemographic and health conditions effects on COVID-19 mortality in Colombia: An ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study aimed to determine the association between chronic exposure to fine particulate matter (PM_2.5), sociodemographic aspects, and health conditions with COVID-19 mortality in Colombia.

Methods

We performed an ecological study using data at the municipality level. We used COVID-19 data obtained from government public reports up to and including July 17th, 2020. We defined PM_2.5 long-term exposure as the 2014-2018 average of the estimated concentrations at municipalities obtained from the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service Reanalysis (CAMSRA) model. We fitted a logit-negative binomial hurdle model for the mortality rate adjusting for sociodemographic and health conditions.

Results

Estimated mortality rate ratios (MRR)

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Villamizar LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7688425 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature