Downstream health impacts of employment losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Canadian workforce has experienced significant employment losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, in part as a result of non-pharmaceutical interventions to slow COVID-19 transmission. Health consequences are likely to result from these job losses, but without historical precedent for the current economic shutdown they are challenging to plan for. Our study aimed to use population risk models to quantify potential downstream health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and inform public health planning to minimize future health burden.

Methods

The impact of COVID-19 job losses on future premature mortality and high-resource health care utilization (HRU) was estimated using an economic model of Canadian COVID-19 lockdowns and validated population risk models. Five-year

SUBMITTER: Buajitti E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8650522 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature