Mortality impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on immigrant populations in Spain.

ABSTRACT: Immigrant populations have been shown to display a disproportionately high mortality burden during the Covid-19 epidemic in some high-income countries. Individual civil registration data from Spain, one of the countries with the highest Covid-19 mortality in Europe, was used in order to characterize mortality during the Covid-19 epidemic for different immigrant groups. Individuals born in South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are shown to have suffered higher mortality impact than the native-born, particularly at working ages (40-59 years old), which could be due to higher proportions of immigrants from these regions among key workers. However, this disproportionate impact is not as high as found in other European countries, like France or Sweden. On the other hand, immigrants born in

SUBMITTER: Aldea N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676914 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature