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An investigation from the University of Santiago (Usach) analyzed different variables, such as multidimensional poverty -evaluated by the last Casen survey-, the use of public transport, demographic density and the difficulty of access to health care, in relation to the incidence and mortality of Covid-19, to assess whether there is a relationship between these factors; and the results speak for themselves.
As an example, according to the study, 100 days after its first case, San Ramón, the commune with the highest Covid-19 mortality rate, is also among the 15 communes of the MR with the most multidimensional poverty, 26.2 % according to the Casen 2017 survey. And Lo Espejo, with the highest percentage of multidimensional poverty (39%), has a mortality rate from Covid of 145.4 per 100 thousand inhabitants. This while, at the other extreme, Vitacura, with a poverty rate of just 3.1%, recorded a mortality of 44.4.
The study entitled “Incidence and mortality of Covid-19 in the Metropolitan Region of Chile: time, space and structural factors”, consigned by La Tercera, considered the scope of the infections that were reported during the first 100 days in each of the 52 communes of the Metropolitan Region.
Claudio Castillo, academic in Public Health and one of the researchers, explained to the morning that the behavior of the infection rates of the communes depends a lot on the population density, multidimensional poverty and the use of public transport, and if they have difficulty or not to access health services.
Regarding mortality, the academic added that it depends on the proportion of people aged 65 and over who live in the commune, the population density, poverty, the accumulated incidence of cases and rurality. “There are also structural factors and others that can be shaped for the different behavior of this pandemic, for example, the use of public transport,” he said.
His peer in the investigation, the economist and health worker Pablo Villalobos, added that “part of what we also found is that spatiality is not trivial in the analysis of Covid-19. They are things that one expected, but that had to be verified by crossing Having done the analysis, one of the possibilities is that the pattern in the event of a second wave repeats itself: that cases will increase again in the communes of the eastern sector and then rapidly expand to the communes of the periphery. “
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