Continuing inequalities in COVID-19 mortality in England and Wales, and the changing importance of regional, over local, deprivation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Observational studies have highlighted that where individuals live is far more important for risk of dying with COVID-19, than for dying of other causes. Deprivation is commonly proposed as explaining such differences. During the period of localised restrictions in late 2020, areas with higher restrictions tended to be more deprived. We explore how this impacted the relationship between deprivation and mortality and see whether local or regional deprivation matters more for inequalities in COVID-19 mortality.

Methods

We use publicly available population data on deaths due to COVID-19 and all-cause mortality between March 2020 and April 2021 to investigate the scale of spatial inequalities. We use a multiscale approach to simultaneously consider three spatial scale

SUBMITTER: Griffith GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9212751 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature