The distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in England
<p><strong>Background</strong>: By their nature, the impact of epidemics on mortality varies geographically, suggesting that the geographical impact of an epidemic implies a social impact.</p> <p><strong>Objective</strong>: To examine the association between...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2021
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| description | <p><strong>Background</strong>: By their nature, the impact of epidemics on mortality varies geographically, suggesting that the geographical impact of an epidemic implies a social impact.</p>
<p><strong>Objective</strong>: To examine the association between two measures of the social composition of a local area and age- and sex-standardised Covid-19 and other mortality in the period 1 March to 31 July 2020. The measures are how deprived an area is and what proportion of its population is non-white.</p>
<p><strong>Methods</strong>: Using spatial autoregressive regression we analyse geographical variation in age- and sex-standardised Covid-19 mortality among English local authorities between 1 March and 31 July 2020 in relation to measures of social composition, and we compare it with mortality from non-Covid sources in the same period, and with all-causes mortality in 2018.</p>
<p><strong>Results</strong>: Areas with higher social deprivation have a higher Covid-19 mortality rate, but the association is much weaker than between social deprivation and mortality rates more generally. An area’s proportion non-white has a strong positive association with Covid-19 mortality, in contrast to a negative association with 2020 non-Covid and with 2018 mortality.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: Covid-19 mortality is related to the social composition of areas in different ways than current non-Covid mortality or past mortality.</p>
<p><strong>Contribution</strong>: The paper provides the first demonstration of the distinct distributional impact of mortality in relation to the Covid-19 virus by the social composition of areas in England.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8a85cdcd-d6fe-409e-8fb7-8a481b2ef3e12023-09-08T14:30:10ZThe distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in EnglandJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8a85cdcd-d6fe-409e-8fb7-8a481b2ef3e1EnglishSymplectic ElementsMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research2021Breen, RErmisch, J<p><strong>Background</strong>: By their nature, the impact of epidemics on mortality varies geographically, suggesting that the geographical impact of an epidemic implies a social impact.</p> <p><strong>Objective</strong>: To examine the association between two measures of the social composition of a local area and age- and sex-standardised Covid-19 and other mortality in the period 1 March to 31 July 2020. The measures are how deprived an area is and what proportion of its population is non-white.</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: Using spatial autoregressive regression we analyse geographical variation in age- and sex-standardised Covid-19 mortality among English local authorities between 1 March and 31 July 2020 in relation to measures of social composition, and we compare it with mortality from non-Covid sources in the same period, and with all-causes mortality in 2018.</p> <p><strong>Results</strong>: Areas with higher social deprivation have a higher Covid-19 mortality rate, but the association is much weaker than between social deprivation and mortality rates more generally. An area’s proportion non-white has a strong positive association with Covid-19 mortality, in contrast to a negative association with 2020 non-Covid and with 2018 mortality.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: Covid-19 mortality is related to the social composition of areas in different ways than current non-Covid mortality or past mortality.</p> <p><strong>Contribution</strong>: The paper provides the first demonstration of the distinct distributional impact of mortality in relation to the Covid-19 virus by the social composition of areas in England.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Breen, R Ermisch, J The distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in England |
| title | The distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in England |
| title_full | The distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in England |
| title_fullStr | The distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in England |
| title_full_unstemmed | The distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in England |
| title_short | The distributional impact of Covid-19: Geographic variation in mortality in England |
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