Cargando…

COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors

Demographic, health, and socioeconomic factors significantly inform COVID-19 outcomes. This article analyzes the association of these factors and outcomes in Chile during the first five months of the pandemic. Using the municipalities Metropolitan Region’s municipalities as the unit of analysis, the...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo, Castillo, Claudio, de la Fuente, Felipe, Maddaleno, Matilde
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8101927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33956827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250707
_version_ 1783689026868346880
author Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo
Castillo, Claudio
de la Fuente, Felipe
Maddaleno, Matilde
author_facet Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo
Castillo, Claudio
de la Fuente, Felipe
Maddaleno, Matilde
author_sort Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo
collection PubMed
description Demographic, health, and socioeconomic factors significantly inform COVID-19 outcomes. This article analyzes the association of these factors and outcomes in Chile during the first five months of the pandemic. Using the municipalities Metropolitan Region’s municipalities as the unit of analysis, the study looks at the role of time dynamics, space, and place in cases and deaths over a 100-day period between March and July 2020. As a result, common and idiosyncratic elements explain the prevalence and dynamics of infections and mortality. Social determinants of health, particularly multidimensional poverty index and use of public transportation play an important role in explaining differences in outcomes. The article contributes to the understanding of the determinants of COVID-19 highlighting the need to consider time-space dynamics and social determinants as key in the analysis. Structural factors are important to identify at-risk populations and to select policy strategies to prevent and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. The results are especially relevant for similar research in unequal settings.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8101927
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Public Library of Science
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-81019272021-05-17 COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo Castillo, Claudio de la Fuente, Felipe Maddaleno, Matilde PLoS One Research Article Demographic, health, and socioeconomic factors significantly inform COVID-19 outcomes. This article analyzes the association of these factors and outcomes in Chile during the first five months of the pandemic. Using the municipalities Metropolitan Region’s municipalities as the unit of analysis, the study looks at the role of time dynamics, space, and place in cases and deaths over a 100-day period between March and July 2020. As a result, common and idiosyncratic elements explain the prevalence and dynamics of infections and mortality. Social determinants of health, particularly multidimensional poverty index and use of public transportation play an important role in explaining differences in outcomes. The article contributes to the understanding of the determinants of COVID-19 highlighting the need to consider time-space dynamics and social determinants as key in the analysis. Structural factors are important to identify at-risk populations and to select policy strategies to prevent and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. The results are especially relevant for similar research in unequal settings. Public Library of Science 2021-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8101927/ /pubmed/33956827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250707 Text en © 2021 Villalobos Dintrans et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo
Castillo, Claudio
de la Fuente, Felipe
Maddaleno, Matilde
COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors
title COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors
title_full COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors
title_fullStr COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors
title_short COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile: Time, space, and structural factors
title_sort covid-19 incidence and mortality in the metropolitan region, chile: time, space, and structural factors
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8101927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33956827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250707
work_keys_str_mv AT villalobosdintranspablo covid19incidenceandmortalityinthemetropolitanregionchiletimespaceandstructuralfactors
AT castilloclaudio covid19incidenceandmortalityinthemetropolitanregionchiletimespaceandstructuralfactors
AT delafuentefelipe covid19incidenceandmortalityinthemetropolitanregionchiletimespaceandstructuralfactors
AT maddalenomatilde covid19incidenceandmortalityinthemetropolitanregionchiletimespaceandstructuralfactors