Country-level and regional COVID-19 burden and determinants across OECD member states and partner countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 pandemic is tremendously impacted by socioeconomic and health determinants worldwide. This study aimed to determine factors associated with COVID-19 fatality among member states and partner countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Methods

An ecological study was conducted using COVID-19 data of 48 countries for the period between 31 December 2019-31 December 2021. The outcome variables were COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) and years of life lost to COVID-19 (YLLs). Countries' sociodemographics and COVID-19-related data were extracted from OECD website, Our World in Data, John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and WHO.

Results

In the first year of the pandemic (December 2019

SUBMITTER: Ngatu NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640741 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature