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Social vulnerability indicators in pandemics focusing on COVID-19: A systematic literature review.
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- Main social vulnerability indicators in the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Social vulnerability indicators in pandemics focusing on COVID-19: A systematic literature review.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2022Pooled it
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- Social vulnerability and the risk of respiratory virus infection in households: a case-ascertained study.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Unhealthy and Unequal: Socioeconomic Vulnerability Shapes Dietary Quality in Children and Adolescents from Spain.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Association of Language Preference with Therapeutic Care for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Observational
- Trends and disparities in the prevalence of circulatory disease risk factors among U.S. adults from the National Health Interview Survey database (2019-2022).International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2025Article
- Towards optimization of community vulnerability indices for COVID-19 prevalence.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Community Vulnerability: Measuring the Health Situation of a Population After COVID-19 Through Electronic Health Record Indicators.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of social fairness perception on sense of social security in China's COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of political trust.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Evaluating Social Vulnerability as a Key Social Determinant of Health Index in Iran.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2025Article
- Social vulnerability is associated with advanced breast cancer presentation and all-cause mortality: a retrospective cohort study.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2024Article
- Mpox Vaccination and the Role of Social Vulnerability in Durham County, North Carolina, USA.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in public primary health care in Greece: is there still a missing link to universal health coverage?BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Association of Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Mortality Rates in Texas between 15 March 2020, and 21 July 2022: An Ecological Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Exploration of spatiotemporal heterogeneity and socio-demographic determinants on COVID-19 incidence rates in Sarawak, Malaysia.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Investigating the impacts of socio-economic vulnerability indicators on COVID-19: A case study of Yazd, Iran.International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2023Article
- Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social sphere and lessons for crisis management: a literature review.Natural hazards (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Statistical Analysis of Mortality Rates of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients in Japan Across the 4C Mortality Score Risk Groups, Age Groups, and Epidemiological Waves: A Report From the Nationwide COVID-19 Cohort.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Impact of social and cultural factors on incidence, transmission and control of Coronavirus disease in Iran: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionSocial factors can affect the vulnerability of disaster-prone communities. This review aimed to identify and categorize social vulnerability indicators in the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsThis systematic review was conducted in February 2021. Bibliographies, citation databases, and other available records were investigated based on the aim of the study. The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tools were applied for assessing the included articles retrieved through the comprehensive and systematic literature search. Descriptive and thematic analyses were done to extract the indicators affecting social vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic.
resultsThirty-one eligible articles were included and 85 indicators of social vulnerability were extracted. The indicators were categorized in seven main categories, including; Household, community composition; Race, minority status and language; Socioeconomic status; Community health status; Public health infra-structures; Education; Information, technology and communication.
conclusionRegions with higher social vulnerability experienced greater mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional research is needed to measure the social vulnerability index in pandemics to prioritize distribution of scarce resources and ensure effectiveness and equity for all regions of countries.
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