Journal article
Excess years of life lost to COVID-19 and other causes of death by sex, neighbourhood deprivation, and region in England and Wales during 2020: A registry-based study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Deaths in the first year of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in England and Wales were unevenly distributed socioeconomically and geographically. However, the full scale of inequalities may have been underestimated to date, as most measures of excess mortality do not adequately account for varying age profiles of deaths between social groups. We measured years of life lost (YLL) attributable to the pandemic, directly …
Authors
Kontopantelis E; Mamas MA; Webb RT; Castro A; Rutter MK; Gale CP; Ashcroft DM; Pierce M; Abel KM; Price G
Journal
PLOS Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 2,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.1003904
ISSN
1549-1277