Health and Institutional Risk Factors of COVID-19 Mortality in Mexico, 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Several studies in developed and developing countries have analyzed the health risk factors associated with COVID-19 mortality. Comorbid diseases are a key explanatory factor behind COVID-19 mortality, but current studies treat comorbidities in isolation, at average-population values, and rarely assess how death risk varies for different health profiles across institutions. Estimating death risk variations for different interactions between comorbid diseases and across healthcare institutions is crucial to gaining a significant depth of understanding in relation to mortality during the pandemic.

Methods

This study relies on data from approximately half a million people in Mexico (of all recorded cases through August 15, 2020) and on Bayesian estimation to provid

SUBMITTER: Najera H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7832683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature