The determinants of COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) in the Italian regions and provinces: An analysis of environmental, demographic, and healthcare factors

G Perone - Science of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The Italian government has been one of the most responsive to COVID-2019 emergency,
through the adoption of quick and increasingly stringent measures to contain the outbreak …

[HTML][HTML] How large was the mortality increase directly and indirectly caused by the COVID-19 epidemic? An analysis on all-causes mortality data in Italy

C Magnani, D Azzolina, E Gallo, D Ferrante… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Objective: Overall mortality is a relevant indicator of the population burden during an
epidemic. It informs on both undiagnosed cases and on the effects of health system …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in cause-specific mortality rates in Italy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study based on nationwide data

E Grande, U Fedeli, M Pappagallo, R Crialesi… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Italy was a country severely hit by the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
wave in early 2020. Mortality studies have focused on the overall excess mortality observed …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy

M Dettori, G Deiana, G Balletto, G Borruso… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work aims to study the role of air pollutants in relation to the number of deaths
per each Italian province affected by COVID-19. To do that, specific mortality from COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Lombardy, Italy: An ecological study on the role of air pollution, meteorological factors, demographic and socioeconomic …

E De Angelis, S Renzetti, M Volta, F Donato… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lombardy, the most populated and industrialized Italian region, was the epicentre of the first
wave (March and April 2020) of COVID-19 in Italy and it is among the most air polluted areas …

An index to quantify environmental risk of exposure to future epidemics of the COVID-19 and similar viral agents: Theory and practice

M Coccia - Environmental research, 2020 - Elsevier
In the presence of the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and other new viral agents,
one of the fundamental problems in science is the evaluation of environmental and social …

Patterns of COVID-19 related excess mortality in the municipalities of Northern Italy during the first wave of the pandemic

D Gibertoni, KYC Adja, D Golinelli, C Reno, L Regazzi… - Health & place, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on mortality in Italy has been
described at the regional level, while less is known about mortality in municipalities …

[HTML][HTML] The epidemiological characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: focus on Italy

G Gabutti, E d'Anchera, F De Motoli, M Savio… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Starting from December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has forcefully entered our lives and profoundly
changed all the habits of the world population. The COVID-19 pandemic has violently …

[HTML][HTML] Demographic and socio-economic factors, and healthcare resource indicators associated with the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Northern Italy: An ecological …

A Buja, M Paganini, S Cocchio, M Scioni, V Rebba… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background COVID-19 rapidly escalated into a pandemic, threatening 213 countries, areas,
and territories the world over. We aimed to identify potential province-level socioeconomic …

[HTML][HTML] A novel methodology for epidemic risk assessment of COVID-19 outbreak

A Pluchino, AE Biondo, N Giuffrida, G Inturri… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We propose a novel data-driven framework for assessing the a-priori epidemic risk of a
geographical area and for identifying high-risk areas within a country. Our risk index is …