dc.contributor.author
Plümecke, Tino
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Mikosch, Heiner
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Mohrenberg, Steffen
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Supik, Linda
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Bartram, Isabelle
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Ellebrecht, Nils
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Zur Nieden, Andrea
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Schnieder, Laura
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Schönberger, Hannah
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Schulze-Marmeling, Charlotte
dc.date.accessioned
2023-02-21T08:43:09Z
dc.date.available
2023-02-21T08:43:09Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/37992
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-37708
dc.description.abstract
Background: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became apparent that members of marginalized populations and immigrants were also at risk of being hospitalized and dying more frequently from COVID-19. To examine how the pandemic affected underserved and marginalized populations, we analyzed data on changes in the number of deaths among people with and without Swiss citizenship during the first and second SARS-CoV-2 waves.
Method: We analyzed the annual number of deaths from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office from 2015 to 2020, and weekly data from January 2020 to May 2021 on deaths of permanent residents with and without Swiss citizenship, and we differentiated the data through subdivision into age groups.
Results: People without Swiss citizenship show a higher increase in the number of deaths in 2020 than those who were Swiss citizens. The increase in deaths compared to the previous year was almost twice as high for people without Swiss citizenship (21.8%) as for those with it (11.4%). The breakdown by age group indicates that among people between the ages of 64 and 75, those without Swiss citizenship exhibited an increase in mortality (21.6%) that was four times higher than that for people with Swiss citizenship (4.7%).
Conclusion: This study confirms that a highly specialized health care system, as is found in Switzerland, does not sufficiently guarantee that all parts of the population will be equally protected in a health crisis such as COVID-19.
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dc.format.extent
7 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
vulnerable groups
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dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title
Differences in mortality in Switzerland by citizenship during the first and second COVID-19 waves: Analysis of death statistics
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
992122
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.3389/fpubh.2022.992122
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Frontiers in Public Health
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
10
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.992122
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2296-2565
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