Infrastructural Inequality and Household COVID-19 Vulnerability in a South African Urban Settlement.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of household infrastructure in containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, with Global South urban settlements particularly vulnerable. Targeted interventions have used area or dwelling type as proxies for infrastructural vulnerability, potentially missing vulnerable households. We use infrastructural determinants of COVID-19 (crowding, water source, toilet facilities, and indoor pollution) to create an Infrastructural Vulnerability Index using cross-sectional household data (2018-2019) from Mamelodi, a low-income urban settlement in South Africa. Households were stratified into vulnerability groups by index results; sociodemographic variables were assessed as predictors of index scores; and inequality analysis and decomposition were conducted. Thirty-three

SUBMITTER: Marcus SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9020544 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature