Investigating demographic and socioeconomic disparities among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in the United States

Kang, Jooyeong; Li, Tianhao; Rousseau, Justin F.; Ding, Ying

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Title

Investigating demographic and socioeconomic disparities among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in the United States

Author(s)

• Kang, Jooyeong
• Li, Tianhao
• Rousseau, Justin F.
• Ding, Ying

Issue Date

2022-02-28

Keyword(s)

• COVID-19
• Healthcare
• Health Inequality
• Demographic Inequity
• Socioeconomic Inequity
• Racial Disparity

Date of Ingest

2022-04-22T20:16:37Z

Abstract

Racial minorities and vulnerable communities in the United States have been considerably affected by the outbreak of COVID-19. The study investigated how unequally distributed the proportions of different groups by race, gender, and education levels are in the cohort of patients who tested positive for COVID-19. We analyzed demographic characteristics of the patients with COVID-19 in a large-scale health record database through descriptive analyses. The study showed that significant differences in the proportions of demographic and social categories existed by conducting the statistical analysis, Chi-square goodness of fit test. Beyond the descriptive statistics, this understanding of demographic characteristics of patients in a commercial electronic health records system can be a baseline for in-depth research on race, gender, and socioeconomic status disparities in access and use of healthcare services during a pandemic.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

Other

Genre of Resource

Conference Poster

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113747

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Copyright 2022 is held by Jooyeong Kang, Tianhao Li, Justin F. Rousseau, and Ying Ding. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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