Sociodemographic determinants of intraurban variations in COVID-19 incidence: the case of Barcelona.

Antonio López-Gay Jeroen J A SpijkerHelen V S ColeAntonio G Marques Margarita Triguero-Mas Isabelle Anguelovski Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo Juan A MódenesDolores Álamo-JunqueraFernando López-GallegoCarme Borrell

Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (2021)

Like other historical pandemics, the incidence of COVID-19 is associated with neighbourhood sociodemographic factors with a greater burden faced by already deprived areas. Because urban social and health injustices already existed in those geographical units with higher COVID-19 incidence in Barcelona, the current pandemic is likely to reinforce both health and social inequalities, and urban environmental injustice all together.

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