Assessment of Excess Mortality and Household Income in Rural Bangladesh During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A slow or incomplete civil registry makes it impossible to determine excess mortality due to COVID-19 and difficult to inform policy.

Objective

To quantify the association of the COVID-19 pandemic with excess mortality and household income in rural Bangladesh in 2020.

Design, setting, and participants

This repeated survey study is based on an in-person census followed by 2 rounds of telephone calls. Data were collected from a sample of 135 villages within a densely populated 350-km2 rural area of Bangladesh. Household data were obtained first in person and subsequently over the telephone. For the analysis, mortality data were stratified by month, age, sex, and household education. Mortality rates were modeled by bayesian multilevel regression, and the strat

SUBMITTER: Barnwal P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593765 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature