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Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities
BACKGROUND: The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit Israel in late February 2020. The present study examines patterns of the first wave of Covid-19 morbidity in Israel at the macro level, during the period of late February to early June 2020, when the first wave has faded out. The analysis focus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7480661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32907584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01269-2 |
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author | Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna Chassida, Judith |
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description | BACKGROUND: The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit Israel in late February 2020. The present study examines patterns of the first wave of Covid-19 morbidity in Israel at the macro level, during the period of late February to early June 2020, when the first wave has faded out. The analysis focuses on the significance of four sociodemographic variables: socioeconomic status, population density, rate of elderly population and minority status (Jewish / Arab identity) of the population in cities with 5000 residents or more. Additionally, we take a closer look into the association between morbidity rates and one SES component – home Internet access. METHODS: The article is a cross sectional study of morbidity rates, investigated on a residential community basis. Following the descriptive statistics, we move on to present multivariate analysis to explore associations between these variables and Covid-19 morbidity in Israel. RESULTS: Both the descriptive statistics and regressions show morbidity rates to be positively associated with population density. Socioeconomic status as well as the size of elderly population were both significantly related to morbidity, but only in Jewish communities. Interestingly, the association was inverse in both cases. i.e., the higher the SES the lower the morbidity and the larger the elderly population, the lower the community’s morbidity. Another interesting result is that overall, morbidity rates in Jewish cities were consistently higher than in Arab communities. CONCLUSIONS: We attribute the low morbidity rates in communities with relatively small elderly populations to the exceptionally high fertility rates in ultra-orthodox communities that sustained increased rates of morbidity; the lower morbidity in Arab communities is attributed to several factors, including the spatial Jewish-Arab segregation. |
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spelling | pubmed-74806612020-09-10 Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna Chassida, Judith Int J Equity Health Research BACKGROUND: The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit Israel in late February 2020. The present study examines patterns of the first wave of Covid-19 morbidity in Israel at the macro level, during the period of late February to early June 2020, when the first wave has faded out. The analysis focuses on the significance of four sociodemographic variables: socioeconomic status, population density, rate of elderly population and minority status (Jewish / Arab identity) of the population in cities with 5000 residents or more. Additionally, we take a closer look into the association between morbidity rates and one SES component – home Internet access. METHODS: The article is a cross sectional study of morbidity rates, investigated on a residential community basis. Following the descriptive statistics, we move on to present multivariate analysis to explore associations between these variables and Covid-19 morbidity in Israel. RESULTS: Both the descriptive statistics and regressions show morbidity rates to be positively associated with population density. Socioeconomic status as well as the size of elderly population were both significantly related to morbidity, but only in Jewish communities. Interestingly, the association was inverse in both cases. i.e., the higher the SES the lower the morbidity and the larger the elderly population, the lower the community’s morbidity. Another interesting result is that overall, morbidity rates in Jewish cities were consistently higher than in Arab communities. CONCLUSIONS: We attribute the low morbidity rates in communities with relatively small elderly populations to the exceptionally high fertility rates in ultra-orthodox communities that sustained increased rates of morbidity; the lower morbidity in Arab communities is attributed to several factors, including the spatial Jewish-Arab segregation. BioMed Central 2020-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7480661/ /pubmed/32907584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01269-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna Chassida, Judith Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities |
title | Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities |
title_full | Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities |
title_fullStr | Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities |
title_full_unstemmed | Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities |
title_short | Covid-19 in Israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in Jewish and Arab communities |
title_sort | covid-19 in israel: socio-demographic characteristics of first wave morbidity in jewish and arab communities |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7480661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32907584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01269-2 |
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