Association of Age, Gender, Deprivation, Urbanicity, Ethnicity, and Smoking with a Positive Test for COVID-19 in an English Primary Care Surveillance Network: Cross Sectional Study of the First 500 Cases

Lusignan, Simon de; Dorward, Jienchi; Correa, Ana María; Jones, Nicholas; Akinyemi, Oluwafunmi; Amirthalingam, Gayatri; Andrews, Nick; Byford, Rachel; Dabrera, Gavin; Elliot, Alex J; Ellis, Joanna; Ferreira, Filipa; Okusi, Cecilia; Ramsay, Mary; Sherlock, Julian; Smith, George Gilbert; Howsam, Gary; Zambon, Maria; Joy, Mark; Williams, John R.

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“…The COVID-19 health crisis, which officially began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has spread worldwide. The number of confirmed cases and the mortality of infected persons appear to differ according to gender, age, and comorbidities (de Lusignan et al 2020;Yang et al 2020).…”

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Gender, Mobility, and Covid-19: The Case of Belgium

Ella

2020

Feminist Economics

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Studies have shown that women are disadvantaged when facing infectious disease outbreaks. This study uses descriptive data analysis, causality, and VAR modeling to verify this hypothesis in the case of COVID-19 in Belgium in relation to people's mobility. The results confirm this women's disadvantage hypothesis, in particular among the working-age population in Belgium. This disadvantage is explained by women's greater mobility during the pandemic. Despite the restrictions on nonessential travel imposed by Belgian authorities, women use public transportation more often than men to travel for work and family reasons and are thus more likely to be exposed to the virus. Therefore, it is necessary that the health, economic, and social response provided by the Belgian authorities correct this inequality.

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Gender, Mobility, and Covid-19: The Case of Belgium

Ella

2020

Feminist Economics

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“…Given the increasing international inequalities in wealth and income before COvID-19 [2] and the lack of explicit attention and sensitivity to social inequalities in international (influenza) pandemic preparedness [1], it may not be surprising that the poor, certain immigrant groups, black people and certain indigenous people once again are paying the highest costs during this new pandemic (see, e.g., De lusignan et al [19], Price-Haywood et al [20], Gu et al [21], Steyn et al [22], Drefahl et al [23], Williamson et al [24], Han et al [25] and Dahal et al [26]). Notably, little of the variation in mortality in the Uk by deprivation and immigrant status was explained by controlling for underlying medical conditions [24].…”

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“…However, these pandemics have not killed the rich and poor alike. In both 1918-1920 and 2019-2020 pandemics, severe disease and mortality were concentrated among the poor, immigrants and indigenous people [8,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][43][44][45][46].…”

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confidence: 99%