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Correlation Between Mortality Due To Covid-19, Wealth Index, Human Development And Population Density In Districts Of Metropolitan Lima During 2020, Zalia E. Dorregaray-Farge, Alonso Soto, Jhony A. De La Cruz Vargas Oct 2021

Correlation Between Mortality Due To Covid-19, Wealth Index, Human Development And Population Density In Districts Of Metropolitan Lima During 2020, Zalia E. Dorregaray-Farge, Alonso Soto, Jhony A. De La Cruz Vargas

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana

Objectives: To determine the correlation between mortality from COVID-19 and the percentage of poverty and the district Human Development Index (HDI) in the department of Lima. Methods: Ecological observational correlation study. The population were patients who died from COVID-19 in metropolitan Lima. All deceased patients reported in the open database of the Ministry of Health were included. The dependent variable was the mortality from COVID-19 calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the total population of the districts and the independent variables were the percentage of poverty and HDI. A secondary analysis was performed evaluating the fatality from COVID-19. …