COVID-19 and Indigenous health in the Brazilian Amazon.

Autor: Wichmann B; Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Alberta, 503 General Services Building, Edmonton, AB T6G-2H1, Canada., Wichmann R; Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research - IDP, Economics Graduate Program, SGAS Quadra 607, Modulo 49, Via L2 Sul, Brasilia, DF CEP 70.200-670, Brazil.; World Bank, SCES Trecho 03, Lote 05, Ed. Polo 8, S/N, Brasilia, DF CEP 70200-003, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Economic modelling [Econ Model] 2022 Oct; Vol. 115, pp. 105962. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 18.
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105962
Abstrakt: We test whether the COVID-19 pandemic has an ethnicity-differentiated (Indigenous vs non-Indigenous) effect on infant health in the Brazilian Amazon. Using vital statistics data we find that Indigenous infants born during the pandemic are 0.5% more likely to have very low birth weights. Access to health care contributes to health gaps. Thirteen percent of mothers travel to deliver their babies. For traveling mothers, having an Indigenous baby during the pandemic increases the probability of very low birth weight by 3%. Indigenous mothers are 7.5% less likely to receive adequate prenatal care. Mothers that travel long distances to deliver their babies and give birth during the pandemic are 35% less likely to receive proper prenatal care. We also find evidence that the pandemic shifts medical resources from rural to urban areas, which disproportionately benefits non-Indigenous mothers. These results highlight the need for policies to reduce health inequalities in the Amazon.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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