Individuals residing in the most denied locations and operating in the healthcare and education sectors had the greatest danger of long COVID compared to the least deprived locations. There was no significant association between the danger of long COVID and the most and least denied areas for individuals working in the production and building and construction sectors.
Lead scientist Dr. Nazrul Islam, of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton and Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, said: “Although certain occupational groups, especially frontline and necessary employees, have been unequally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, research studies on long COVID and profession are sporadic.
” Our findings follow pre-pandemic research study on other health conditions, suggesting that employees with lower socioeconomic status have poorer health outcomes and greater premature mortality than those with higher socioeconomic position but a comparable profession. Nevertheless, the socioeconomic inequality may vary considerably by profession groups.”
According to the researchers, the research study indicates the need for a varied variety of public health interventions after recovery from COVID-19 across numerous converging social dimensions. Future health policy suggestions, they say, must include the several dimensions of inequality, such as sex, occupation, and deprivation when thinking about the treatment and management of long COVID.
Dr. Islam included: “The inequalities shown in this research study show that such an approach can offer more exact recognition of threats and pertain to other diseases and beyond the pandemic.
” These findings will help notify health policy in determining the most vulnerable sub-groups of populations so that more concentrated efforts are given, and proportional allowance of resources are carried out, to assist in the reduction of health inequalities.”
Reference: “Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based friend study in the United Kingdom” by Sharmin Shabnam, Cameron Razieh, Hajira Dambha-Miller, Tom Yates, Clare Gillies, Yogini V Chudasama, Manish Pareek, Amitava Banerjee, Ichiro Kawachi, Ben Lacey, Eva JA Morris, Martin White, Francesco Zaccardi, Kamlesh Khunti and Nazrul Islam, 10 May 2023, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.DOI: 10.1177/ 01410768231168377.
A study by the University of Southampton and Oxford, examining over 200,000 working-age adults, has found that individuals in the most socioeconomically deprived areas are 46% most likely to struggle with long COVID than those in the least deprived areas.
A current study conducted by the Universities of Southampton and Oxford exposes a strong connection between the occurrence of long COVID and the level of area-specific deprivation. It found that people from the most deprived areas are 46 percent most likely to experience long COVID compared to those from less denied locations.
This research, which was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, assessed more than 200,000 grownups of working age. It marks the first attempt to quantify the link between long COVID and socioeconomic status across numerous occupational sectors.
Evaluating information from the Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey, the researchers found that women had a greater risk of long COVID, with the threat of long COVID in women in the least denied locations similar to that in males in the most denied locations.