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COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria
In the turbulent year 2020, overshadowed by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Austria experienced multiple waves of increased case incidence. While governmental measures to curb the numbers were based on current knowledge of infection risk factors, a retrospective analysis of incidence and lethality at...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35162665 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031644 |
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author | Moshammer, Hanns Poteser, Michael Weitensfelder, Lisbeth |
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description | In the turbulent year 2020, overshadowed by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Austria experienced multiple waves of increased case incidence. While governmental measures to curb the numbers were based on current knowledge of infection risk factors, a retrospective analysis of incidence and lethality at the district level revealed correlations of relative infection risk with socioeconomic, geographical, and behavioral population parameters. We identified unexpected correlations between political orientation and smoking behavior and COVID-19 infection risk and/or mortality. For example, a decrease in daily smokers by 2.3 percentage points would be associated with an increase in cumulative incidence by 10% in the adjusted model, and an increase in voters of the right-wing populist party by 1.6 percentage points with an increase in cumulative mortality by 10%. While these parameters are apparently only single elements of complex causal chains that finally lead to individual susceptibility and vulnerability levels, our findings might have identified ecological parameters that can be utilized to develop fine-tuned communications and measures in upcoming challenges of this and other pandemics. |
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spelling | pubmed-88354932022-02-12 COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria Moshammer, Hanns Poteser, Michael Weitensfelder, Lisbeth Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In the turbulent year 2020, overshadowed by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Austria experienced multiple waves of increased case incidence. While governmental measures to curb the numbers were based on current knowledge of infection risk factors, a retrospective analysis of incidence and lethality at the district level revealed correlations of relative infection risk with socioeconomic, geographical, and behavioral population parameters. We identified unexpected correlations between political orientation and smoking behavior and COVID-19 infection risk and/or mortality. For example, a decrease in daily smokers by 2.3 percentage points would be associated with an increase in cumulative incidence by 10% in the adjusted model, and an increase in voters of the right-wing populist party by 1.6 percentage points with an increase in cumulative mortality by 10%. While these parameters are apparently only single elements of complex causal chains that finally lead to individual susceptibility and vulnerability levels, our findings might have identified ecological parameters that can be utilized to develop fine-tuned communications and measures in upcoming challenges of this and other pandemics. MDPI 2022-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8835493/ /pubmed/35162665 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031644 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Moshammer, Hanns Poteser, Michael Weitensfelder, Lisbeth COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria |
title | COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria |
title_full | COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria |
title_fullStr | COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria |
title_short | COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria |
title_sort | covid-19: regional differences in austria |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35162665 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031644 |
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