SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.21 número4Relación entre la aprobación de la adopción de hijos por homosexuales y la actitud frente a la homosexualidad en estudiantes y egresados de medicinaValoración de Whatsapp para la comunicación y organización del trabajo grupal en médicos residentes índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

  • No hay articulos citadosCitado por SciELO

Links relacionados

  • No hay articulos similaresSimilares en SciELO

Compartir


Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana

versión impresa ISSN 1814-5469versión On-line ISSN 2308-0531

Resumen

DORREGARAY-FARGE, Zalia E.; SOTO, Alonso  y  DE LA CRUZ VARGAS, Jhony. Correlation between mortality due to covid-19, wealth index, human development and population density in districts of Lima Metropolitana during 2020. Rev. Fac. Med. Hum. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.4, pp.780-789. ISSN 1814-5469.  http://dx.doi.org/10.25176/rfmh.v21i4.3987.

Objective:

To determine the correlation between mortality due to COVID-19 and incidence of poverty and district human development index (HDI) in the department of Lima.

Methodology:

An observational, ecological, correlational study. The population were patients who died from COVID-19 in Lima Metropolitana. We included all patients reported dead in the open data base of the Ministerio de Salud. The dependent variable was mortality due to COVID-19, calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the total district population, and the independent variables were the incidence of poverty and HDI. We carried out a secondary analysis evaluating the fatality by COVID-19. The correlation was calculated through Spearman’s non-parametric method.

Results:

13 154 people died of COVID-19 during the period between March and September, the majority was of masculine gender with an average age of 66 years. We did not find a significant correlation between mortality and incidence of poverty (rho=-0,2230; p=0,15). We found a significant correlation between mortality due to COVID-19 and HDI (rho= 0,4466; p=0,002). Mortality was correlated with population density (rho=0,7616; p=<0,001). We found a positive (rho=0,32) and significant (p=0,037) correlation between fatality and incidence of poverty. We found a significant correlation between fatality due to COVID-19 and population density (rho=0,7616; p=<0,001). We did not find a significant correlation between fatality and HDI.

Conclusions:

Population density was a factor associated in the most consistent manner with mortality and fatality due to COVID. Poverty was associated to greater fatality, but not to greater mortality.

Palabras clave : Coronavirus infection; mortality; poverty; human development index (Source: MeSH NLM)..

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español | Inglés     · Español ( pdf ) | Inglés ( pdf )