Excess Mortality due to natural causes among whites and blacks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Excess Mortality by all causes considers deaths directly related to COVID-19 and those attributed to conditions caused by the pandemic. When stratified by social dimensions, such as race/color, it allows for the evaluation of more vulnerable populations. The study estimated th...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:3e1d7768f87b4d0e876008fd52cd5ff7 2023-05-15T15:13:51+02:00 Excess Mortality due to natural causes among whites and blacks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil Renato Azeredo Teixeira Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos Ana Torens Elisabeth Barboza França Lenice Ishitani Ana Luiza Bierrenbach Daisy Maria Xavier de Abreu Fátima Marinho 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0283-2021 https://doaj.org/article/3e1d7768f87b4d0e876008fd52cd5ff7 EN eng Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822022000500313&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9849 1678-9849 doi:10.1590/0037-8682-0283-2021 https://doaj.org/article/3e1d7768f87b4d0e876008fd52cd5ff7 Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 55, Iss suppl 1 (2022) Excess mortality COVID-19 Race Skin color Health information system Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0283-2021 2022-12-31T03:20:58Z Abstract INTRODUCTION: Excess Mortality by all causes considers deaths directly related to COVID-19 and those attributed to conditions caused by the pandemic. When stratified by social dimensions, such as race/color, it allows for the evaluation of more vulnerable populations. The study estimated the excess mortality by natural causes, separating the white and black populations in 2020. METHODS Public civil registration data on deaths observed in 2020, corrected for under registration, were used. The expected number of deaths was estimated based on the mortality rates observed in 2019, applied to the estimated population in 2020. The difference between the values expected and observed and the proportion of excess was considered the excess mortality. RESULTS: The present study found an excess of 270,321 deaths (22.2% above the expected) in 2020. Every state of Brazil reported deaths above the corresponding expected figure. The excess was higher for men (25.2%) than for women (19.0%). Blacks showed an excess of 27.8%, as compared to whites at 17.6%. In both sexes and all age groups, excess was higher in the black population, especially in the South, Southeast, and Midwest regions. São Paulo, the largest in population number, had twice as much excess death in the black population (25.1%) than in the white population (11.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The present study showed racial disparities in excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. The higher excess found for the black suggests an intrinsic relationship with the socioeconomic situation, further exposing the Brazilian reality, in which social and structural inequality is evident. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 55 suppl 1 |
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Abstract INTRODUCTION: Excess Mortality by all causes considers deaths directly related to COVID-19 and those attributed to conditions caused by the pandemic. When stratified by social dimensions, such as race/color, it allows for the evaluation of more vulnerable populations. The study estimated the excess mortality by natural causes, separating the white and black populations in 2020. METHODS Public civil registration data on deaths observed in 2020, corrected for under registration, were used. The expected number of deaths was estimated based on the mortality rates observed in 2019, applied to the estimated population in 2020. The difference between the values expected and observed and the proportion of excess was considered the excess mortality. RESULTS: The present study found an excess of 270,321 deaths (22.2% above the expected) in 2020. Every state of Brazil reported deaths above the corresponding expected figure. The excess was higher for men (25.2%) than for women (19.0%). Blacks showed an excess of 27.8%, as compared to whites at 17.6%. In both sexes and all age groups, excess was higher in the black population, especially in the South, Southeast, and Midwest regions. São Paulo, the largest in population number, had twice as much excess death in the black population (25.1%) than in the white population (11.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The present study showed racial disparities in excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. The higher excess found for the black suggests an intrinsic relationship with the socioeconomic situation, further exposing the Brazilian reality, in which social and structural inequality is evident. |
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