Racial disparities in Covid-19 incidence associated with Socio-Economic Factors in the United States

Wheatley, Ken (2023) Racial disparities in Covid-19 incidence associated with Socio-Economic Factors in the United States. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

The global Covid-19 pandemic has revealed several major risks to various population groups. One of these is racial health outcome disparity. In the US, this has long been a policy concern but has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 outbreak. A main driver in the disparity in health outcomes are socio-demographic factors. The United States maintains comprehensive sources of publicly available data on social determinants of health (SDH) which include socio-economic and environmental factors.

In this study, it is hypothesized that racial disparities in Covid-19 incidence are observed and various SDH factors are examined to explain these observations Both fixed effects and mixed effects models were considered to take in account possible between-state variance in infection rates. Results showed that between state difference were small and that a fixed effects logistic regression model would be better choice because of its relative simplicity. SDH factors relating mostly to ethnic minority status were identified. Relative to Whites, Black and Asian populations have the least likelihood of Covid-19 infections.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Supervisors:	Name Email Sahni, Vikas UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science R Medicine > Diseases > Outbreaks of disease > Epidemics > COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- H Social Sciences > Economics > Wealth
Divisions:	School of Computing > Master of Science in Data Analytics
Depositing User:	Tamara Malone
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2025 15:11
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2025 15:11
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7290

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