COVID-19 mortality and deprivation: pandemic, syndemic, and endemic health inequalities.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has exacerbated endemic health inequalities resulting in a syndemic pandemic of higher mortality and morbidity rates among the most socially disadvantaged. We did a scoping review to identify and synthesise published evidence on geographical inequalities in COVID-19 mortality rates globally. We included peer-reviewed studies, from any country, written in English that showed any area-level (eg, neighbourhood, town, city, municipality, or region) inequalities in mortality by socioeconomic deprivation (ie, measured via indices of multiple deprivation: the percentage of people living in poverty or proxy factors including the Gini coefficient, employment rates, or housing tenure). 95 papers from five WHO global regions were included in the final synthesis. A large majority of the studi

SUBMITTER: McGowan VJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9629845 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature