ArticleHealth economics2021
The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy.
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- Mass testing for discovery and control of COVID-19 outbreaks in adult social care: an observational study and cost-effectiveness analysis of 14 805 care homes in England.BMJ public health · 2025Article
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- Informal care, older people, and COVID-19: Evidence from the UK.Journal of economic behavior & organization · 2023Article
- Education and COVID-19 excess mortality.Economics and human biology · 2022Article
- Excess mortality and protected areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italian municipalities.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- Managing the Impact of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities: An Update.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
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- Organizational Support Experiences of Care Home and Home Care Staff in Sweden, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the spatial distribution of excess deaths and the presence of care home facilities during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data for Lombardy, one of the areas most severely hit by the pandemic we show that the presence of a care home in a municipality is associated with significantly higher excess death rates in the population. This effect appears to be driven by excess mortality in the elderly population of 70 years old and older. Our results are robust to controlling for the number of residents in each care home, suggesting that the presence of such facilities may have acted as one of factors contributing to the diffusion of COVID-19 at the local level.
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