Assessing the impact of neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics on COVID-19 prevalence across seven states in the United States

E Hatef, HY Chang, C Kitchen, JP Weiner… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) across the United States
has highlighted the long-standing nationwide health inequalities with socioeconomically …

The effect of area deprivation on COVID-19 risk in Louisiana

M KC, E Oral, S Straif-Bourgeois, AL Rung, ES Peters - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Louisiana in the summer of 2020 had the highest per capita case count for
COVID-19 in the United States and COVID-19 deaths disproportionately affects the African …

Analysis of COVID-19 cases' spatial dependence in US counties reveals health inequalities

T Saffary, OA Adegboye, E Gayawan, F Elfaki… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
On March 13, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019 coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 a pandemic. Since then …

Spatial disparities in coronavirus incidence and mortality in the United States: an ecological analysis as of May 2020

CH Zhang, GG Schwartz - The Journal of Rural Health, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This ecological analysis investigates the spatial patterns of the COVID‐19 epidemic
in the United States in relation to socioeconomic variables that characterize US counties …

COVID-19 and inequity: a comparative spatial analysis of New York City and Chicago hot spots

AR Maroko, D Nash, BT Pavilonis - Journal of Urban Health, 2020 - Springer
There have been numerous reports that the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic has
disproportionately impacted traditionally vulnerable communities associated with …

COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates and spatial socio-demographics in New York City: An ecological analysis as of June 2020

B Kim, AG Rundle, ATS Goodwin, CN Morrison… - Health & place, 2021 - Elsevier
We assessed the geographic variation in socio-demographics, mobility, and built
environmental factors in relation to COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates in New York …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality and neighborhood characteristics in Chicago

MS Bryan, J Sun, J Jagai, DE Horton… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To describe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality in Chicago during the
spring of 2020 and identify at the census-tract level neighborhood characteristics that were …

An ecological study of the association between neighborhood racial and economic residential segregation with COVID-19 vulnerability in the United States' capital city

KM Brown, JY Lewis, SK Davis - Annals of Epidemiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on American life. However,
the burden of the pandemic has not been distributed equally. The purpose of this study was …

Association Of Neighborhood Disadvantage With Racial Disparities In COVID-19 Positivity In Chicago: Study examines the association of neighborhood disadvantage …

EL Tung, ME Peek, MA Rivas, JP Yang… - Health Affairs, 2021 - healthaffairs.org
Racial health inequities exemplified during the COVID-19 crisis have awakened a sense of
urgency among public health and policy experts to examine contributing factors. One …

Assessment of structural barriers and racial group disparities of COVID-19 mortality with spatial analysis

Q Lin, S Paykin, D Halpern… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although social determinants of health (SDOH) are important factors in health
inequities, they have not been explicitly associated with COVID-19 mortality rates across …