Social vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru.

Autor:	Zegarra Zamalloa CO; Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, MA, United States of America., Contreras PJ; Centro de Investigación en Atención Primaria de Salud, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú., Orellana LR; Emerge, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú., Riega Lopez PA; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú., Prasad S; Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, University of Minnesota, MN, United States of America., Cuba Fuentes MS; Centro de Investigación en Atención Primaria de Salud, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	PLOS global public health [PLOS Glob Public Health] 2022 Dec 02; Vol. 2 (12), pp. e0001330. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Dec 02 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pgph.0001330
Abstrakt:	The COVID-19 pandemic has demanded governments and diverse organizations to work on strategies to prepare and help communities. Increasing recognition of the importance of identifying vulnerable populations has raised a demand for better tools. One of these tools is the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI). The SVI was created in 2011 to identify and plan assistance for socially vulnerable populations during hazardous events, by providing disaster management personnel information to target specific areas. We aimed to evaluate and determine the social vulnerability in different provinces and districts of Peru in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic using an adapted version of the SVI index. Ecological, observational, and cross-sectional study was conducted. We adapted the SVI and collected indicators related to COVID-19. We organized and analyzed the population data of the 196 provinces of Peru, using data from government institutions. We found a distribution of high and very high SVI in the mountainous areas of Peru. High and very high social vulnerability indexes, due to the presence of some or all the variables were predominantly distributed in the provinces located in the southern and highlands of the country. The association between mortality rate and social SVI-COVID19 was inverse, the higher the vulnerability, the lower the mortality. Our results identify that the provinces with high and very high vulnerability indexes are mostly located in rural areas nearby the Andes Mountains, not having a direct correlation with COVID-19 mortality. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2022 Zegarra Zamalloa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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