Disparities in excess deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrant workers in Kuwait.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The actual human cost of the pandemic cannot be viewed through the COVID-19 mortality rates alone, especially when the pandemic is widening the existing health disparities among different subpopulations within the same society. In Kuwait, migrant workers were already disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and its unintended consequences. The totality of that effect on mortality is yet to be fully understood.

Objective

To estimate excess deaths in the pandemic year of 2020 among the Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti migrant populations.

Methods

We analyzed publicly available retrospective data in Kuwait on total annual mortality historically (from 2005 to 2019) and in 2020. We fitted a quasi-poisson generalized linear model adjusted for yearly trend and nationality t

SUBMITTER: Alahmad B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8438289 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature