Projected all-cause deaths attributable to COVID-19-related unemployment in Croatia in 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In 2020, Croatia reported the first increase in the unemployment rate after six consecutive years of reduction in the number of unemployed persons. Unemployment is associated with an increase in morbidity and mortality among unemployed persons. We estimated the number of potential excess deaths that could be associated with an increase in unemployment seen after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Study design

This was a cross-sectional analytic study.

Methods

We used previously published meta-analyzed hazard ratios for the unemployment-mortality association and unemployment and mortality data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics to estimate 1-year age-standardized deaths potentially attributable to COVID-19-related unemployment for persons ag

SUBMITTER: Handanagic S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9042730 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature