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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/22768| Title: | The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy |
| Authors: | Alacevich, C Cavalli, N Giuntella, O Lagravinese, R Moscone, F Nicodemo, C |
| Keywords: | care homes;COVID-19;excess mortality |
| Issue Date: | 21-Apr-2021 |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Citation: | Alacevich, C. et al. (2021) 'The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy', Health Economics. 30 (7), pp. 1703 - 1710. doi: 10.1002/hec.4277. |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the relationship between the spatial distribution of excess deaths and the presence of care home facilities during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data for Lombardy, one of the areas most severely hit by the pandemic we show that the presence of a care home in a municipality is associated with significantly higher excess death rates in the population. This effect appears to be driven by excess mortality in the elderly population of 70 years old and older. Our results are robust to controlling for the number of residents in each care home, suggesting that the presence of such facilities may have acted as one of factors contributing to the diffusion of COVID-19 at the local level. |
| Description: | Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study will be made openly available if it is accepted for publication. Supporting Information is available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.4277#support-information-section . |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/22768 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4277 |
| ISSN: | 1057-9230 |
| Other Identifiers: | ORCID iDs: Osea Giuntella https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8690-980X; Raffaele Lagravinese https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-7470; Francesco Moscone https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5378-680X. |
| Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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