Disparities in the risk and outcomes of Covid-19. .
by Public Health England.
Publisher: PHE, London : 2020.Description: 89p.Summary: This is a descriptive review of data on disparities in the risk and outcomes from Covid19. This review presents findings based on surveillance data available to PHE at the time of its publication, including through linkage to broader health data sets. It confirms that the impact of Covid-19 has replicated existing health inequalities and, in some cases, has increased them. These results improve our understanding of the pandemic and will help in formulating the future public health response to it. The largest disparity found was by age. Among people already diagnosed with Covid19, people who were 80 or older were seventy times more likely to die than those under 40. Risk of dying among those diagnosed with Covid-19 was also higher in males than females; higher in those living in the more deprived areas than those living in the least deprived; and higher in those in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups than in White ethnic groups. These inequalities largely replicate existing inequalities in mortality rates in previous years, except for BAME groups, as mortality was previously higher in White ethnic groups. These analyses take into account age, sex, deprivation, region and ethnicity, but they do not take into account the existence of comorbidities, which are strongly associated with the risk of death from Covid-19 and are likely to explain some of the differences..Subject(s): Covid-19 | pandemics | health inequalities | black & ethnic minorities | older people | health outcomes | hospitalisation | mortality | chronic disease | racial inequality | wider determinants of health | risk factors | socioeconomic factors | literature reviews | evaluationDigital copyAvailability: Online access List(s) this item appears in: Health inequalities [October 2023] | Covid-19: ethnic minority communities [September 2023]
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This is a descriptive review of data on disparities in the risk and outcomes from Covid19. This review presents findings based on surveillance data available to PHE at the time of its publication, including through linkage to broader health data sets. It confirms that the impact of Covid-19 has replicated existing health inequalities and, in some cases, has increased them. These results improve our understanding of the pandemic and will help in formulating the future public health response to it. The largest disparity found was by age. Among people already diagnosed with Covid19, people who were 80 or older were seventy times more likely to die than those under 40. Risk of dying among those diagnosed with Covid-19 was also higher in males than females; higher in those living in the more deprived areas than those living in the least deprived; and higher in those in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups than in White ethnic groups. These inequalities largely replicate existing inequalities in mortality rates in previous years, except for BAME groups, as mortality was previously higher in White ethnic groups. These analyses take into account age, sex, deprivation, region and ethnicity, but they do not take into account the existence of comorbidities, which are strongly associated with the risk of death from Covid-19 and are likely to explain some of the differences.
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