The Correlation Between Socioeconomic Factors and COVID-19 Among Immigrants in Norway: a Register-based Study

Overview

Journal Scand J Public Health

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Public Health

Date 2021 May 13

PMID 33983088

Citations 19

Authors

Marte Kjollesdal

Katrine Skyrud

Abdi Gele

Trude Arnesen

Hilde Klovstad

Esperanza Diaz

Thor Indseth

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Abstract

Aim: Immigrants in Norway have higher COVID-19 notification and hospitalisation rates than Norwegian-born individuals. The knowledge about the role of socioeconomic factors to explain these differences is limited. We investigate the relationship between socioeconomic indicators at group level and epidemiological data for all notified cases of COVID-19 and related hospitalisations among the 23 largest immigrant groups in Norway.

Methods: We used data on all notified COVID-19 cases in Norway up to 15 November 2020, and associated hospitalisations, from the Norwegian Surveillance System for Communicable Diseases and the emergency preparedness register at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. We report notified COVID-19 cases and associated hospitalisation rates per 100,000 and their correlation to income, education, unemployment, crowded housing and years of residency at the group level.

Results: Crowded housing and low income at a group level were correlated with rates of both notified cases of COVID-19 (Pearson`s correlation coefficient 0.77 and 0.52) and related hospitalisations (0.72, 0.50). In addition, low educational level and unemployment were correlated with a high number of notified cases.

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