Older Adult Mortality From COVID-19: Food Access as a Determinant Within a Socio-ecological Framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Low access to food can have an adverse impact on health yet there is limited research on how it is related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The objective of this study was to (a) better understand how inadequate food access was associated with older adult mortality from COVID-19 and (b) determine the spatial distribution of mortality from low food access utilizing a socio-ecological framework.

Research design and methods

This study area was the larger Midwest, a region of the United States, which included the following states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Data were aggregated from multiple sources at the county-level. Because the spatial data used in this study violated several assumptions o

SUBMITTER: Sharma A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8807209 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature