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Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population
BACKGROUND: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Hispanic population resulted in the almost complete elimination of the long-standing Hispanic mortality advantage relative to the non-Hispanic White population. However, it is unknown how COVID-19 mortality affected the diverse Hispanic subpopul...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10364128/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37489132 http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.12 |
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author | Arias, Elizabeth Tejada-Vera, Betzaida |
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description | BACKGROUND: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Hispanic population resulted in the almost complete elimination of the long-standing Hispanic mortality advantage relative to the non-Hispanic White population. However, it is unknown how COVID-19 mortality affected the diverse Hispanic subpopulations. OBJECTIVE: We estimate life expectancy at birth in 2019 and 2020 by select Hispanic country/region of origin and explore how changes in age-specific all-cause and COVID-19 mortality affected changes in life expectancy between 2019 and 2020 for each group. METHODS: We use final 2019 and 2020 mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics and population estimates based on the 2019 and 2020 American Community Survey. We calculate life tables and apply decomposition techniques to explore the effects of changes in age- and cause-specific mortality on life expectancy. RESULTS: Patterns of age- and cause-specific excess deaths and their impact on declines in life expectancy due to the COVID-19 pandemic differed substantially by Hispanic subgroup. Life expectancy losses ranged from 0.6 to 6.7 years among males and from 0.6 to 3.6 years among females. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings highlight the heterogeneous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic within the Hispanic population. CONTRIBUTIONS: Our findings contribute new information that will help future researchers identify the causes of the disproportionately severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Hispanic population. Our study underscores the importance of population disaggregation in endeavors to identify the multiple pathways by which the pandemic affected the Hispanic population. |
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spelling | pubmed-103641282023-07-24 Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population Arias, Elizabeth Tejada-Vera, Betzaida Demogr Res Article BACKGROUND: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Hispanic population resulted in the almost complete elimination of the long-standing Hispanic mortality advantage relative to the non-Hispanic White population. However, it is unknown how COVID-19 mortality affected the diverse Hispanic subpopulations. OBJECTIVE: We estimate life expectancy at birth in 2019 and 2020 by select Hispanic country/region of origin and explore how changes in age-specific all-cause and COVID-19 mortality affected changes in life expectancy between 2019 and 2020 for each group. METHODS: We use final 2019 and 2020 mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics and population estimates based on the 2019 and 2020 American Community Survey. We calculate life tables and apply decomposition techniques to explore the effects of changes in age- and cause-specific mortality on life expectancy. RESULTS: Patterns of age- and cause-specific excess deaths and their impact on declines in life expectancy due to the COVID-19 pandemic differed substantially by Hispanic subgroup. Life expectancy losses ranged from 0.6 to 6.7 years among males and from 0.6 to 3.6 years among females. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings highlight the heterogeneous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic within the Hispanic population. CONTRIBUTIONS: Our findings contribute new information that will help future researchers identify the causes of the disproportionately severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Hispanic population. Our study underscores the importance of population disaggregation in endeavors to identify the multiple pathways by which the pandemic affected the Hispanic population. 2023-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10364128/ /pubmed/37489132 http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.12 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE), which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Arias, Elizabeth Tejada-Vera, Betzaida Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population |
title | Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population |
title_full | Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population |
title_fullStr | Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population |
title_full_unstemmed | Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population |
title_short | Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population |
title_sort | differential impact of the covid-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the hispanic population |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10364128/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37489132 http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.12 |
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