The correlation between socioeconomic factors and COVID-19 among immigrants in Norway: a register-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Immigrants in Norway have higher COVID-19 notification and hospitalisation rates than Norwegian-born individuals. The knowledge about the role of socioeconomic factors to explain these differences is limited. We investigate the relationship between socioeconomic indicators at group level and epidemiological data for all notified cases of COVID-19 and related hospitalisations among the 23 largest immigrant groups in Norway.

Methods

We used data on all notified COVID-19 cases in Norway up to 15 November 2020, and associated hospitalisations, from the Norwegian Surveillance System for Communicable Diseases and the emergency preparedness register at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. We report notified COVID-19 cases and associated hospitalisation rates per 100,000 an

SUBMITTER: Kjollesdal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8807998 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature