Area-level indicators of income and total mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is mounting evidence that socioeconomic inequalities in mortality have widened during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed at evaluating the relationship between area-level indicators of income and total mortality during the first phase of COVID-19 pandemic in the most hit Italian region.

Methods

We conducted an ecological study based on the number of deaths registered in the municipalities of the Lombardy region (Italy) between January 2019 and June 2020. Municipalities were grouped according to quintiles of average income and pension of their resident population. Monthly age-standardized mortality ratios (MRs) between the poorest and the richest municipalities and the corresponding 95% CI were computed to evaluate whether the pre-existing socioeconomic

SUBMITTER: Colombo FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8083668 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature