PlumX Metrics
SSRN
Embed PlumX Metrics

Understanding How Socioeconomic Inequalities Drive Inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 Infections

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2021
  • 2
    Citations
  • 965
    Usage
  • 6
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

  • Citations
    2
    • Citation Indexes
      2
  • Usage
    965
    • Abstract Views
      887
    • Downloads
      78
  • Captures
    6
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      631,128

Article Description

Across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected economically disadvantaged groups. This differential impact has numerous possible explanations, each with significantly different policy implications. We examine, for the first time in a low- or middle-income country, which mechanisms best explain the disproportionate impact of the virus on the poor. Combining an epidemiological model with rich data from Bogotá, Colombia, we show that total infections and inequalities in infections are largely driven by inequalities in the inability to work remotely and in within-home secondary attack rates. Inequalities in isolation behavior are less important but non-negligible, while access to testing and contract-tracing plays practically no role. Interventions that mitigate transmission are often more effective when targeted on socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.

Bibliographic Details

Rachid Laajaj; Duncan Webb; Danilo Aristizabal; Eduardo Behrentz; Raquel Bernal; Giancarlo Buitrago; Zulma M. Cucunubá; Fernando de la Hoz; Alejandro Gaviria Uribe; Luis Jorge Hernández Florez; Camilo De Los Rios Rueda; Andrea Ramirez Varela; Silvia Restrepo; Norbert Schady; Martha Vives Florez

Elsevier BV

Multidisciplinary; COVID-19; inequality; infections; socioeconomic strata

Provide Feedback

Have ideas for a new metric? Would you like to see something else here?Let us know