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More people living in socio-economically deprived areas are admitted to hospitals with severe corona symptoms compared to those living in more affluent areas.
There you are also better at testing yourself.
This is demonstrated by studies from Uppsala, where corona infection is increasing considerably today.
The study has used two maps. One that shows where most of the people who get tested live and another that shows where those who have become so ill from covid-19 that they have been hospitalized live.
– When we place the maps on top of each other and compare them, completely different images emerge, says Fredrik Settergren, manager of the nearby health and care business area of the Uppsala region.
– In socioeconomically vulnerable areas, significantly more people have been hospitalized and significantly more people have been tested in areas with better socioeconomic status. There are quite serious differences.
Now several steps will be taken to change this.
Photo: Uppsala Region
Fredrik Settergren, Director of the Close Care and Health Business Area
Meetings with key people
There is already a sampling station in Bålsta and the region hopes to open a station in Gottsunda next week. A station must also be mobile and able to be quickly installed in areas where not enough people are being tested.
Fredrik Settergren believes that more people get seriously ill in the same areas where fewer people get tested is entirely due to the fact that the most vulnerable people are at risk of being exposed to the infection.
– You can also live tighter, you don’t have the jobs that you can work from home but you have to move more in society, or in some cases you can’t absorb the information and try. So we don’t have the same chances of tracking infections.
In addition to the strategically located sampling stations, the Uppsala Region will also have a series of meetings with key people in the areas who can help spread the word.
Uppsala has entered a second phase of spreading the infection. After a summer with so few corona patients that care staff could be delivered to Norway, the number of new cases has recently increased dramatically.
When comparing the effects of the coronavirus with zip codes, Fredrik Settergren believes that it is unique to the region.
– We have worked to get to the information as much as we can, but in these areas we have obviously not done enough, he says.
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