Association between social vulnerability and place of death during the first 2 years of COVID-19 in Massachusetts

Marie-Laure Charpignon; Shauna Onofrey; Yea-Hung Chen; Alex Rewegan; Medellena Maria Glymour; R Monina Klevens; Maimuna Shahnaz Majumder

doi:10.1093/ageing/afae018

Association between social vulnerability and place of death during the first 2 years of COVID-19 in Massachusetts

Age Ageing. 2024 Feb 1;53(2):afae018. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afae018.

Authors

Marie-Laure Charpignon^{1

2}, Shauna Onofrey³, Yea-Hung Chen⁴, Alex Rewegan⁵, Medellena Maria Glymour^{4

6}, R Monina Klevens³, Maimuna Shahnaz Majumder^{2

7}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 38369628
PMCID: PMC10874923 (available on 2025-02-17)
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afae018

Abstract

We investigated the relationship between individual-level social vulnerability and place of death during the infectious disease emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts. Our research represents a unique contribution by matching individual-level death certificates with COVID-19 test data to analyse differences in distributions of place of death.

Keywords: infectious disease emergency; older people; place of death; social vulnerability.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Massachusetts / epidemiology
Pandemics
Social Vulnerability

Abstract

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