COVID-19 and Indigenous peoples in Chile: vulnerability to contagion and mortality

Millalén, Pablo; Nahuelpán, Héctor; Hofflinger, Álvaro; Martínez, Edgars

doi:10.1177/1177180120967958

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“…However, it has been found that this health situation has not affected all population sectors in Chile equally [ 10 ]. Thus, as for the indigenous population, the vulnerability indicators previously detected have increased since it is a group that already had inequalities in health [ 11 , 12 ].…”

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Factors Related to Psychological Distress during the First Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Chilean Population

Ruiz‐Frutos

Delgado

Ortega-Moreno

et al. 2021

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The health effects of COVID-19 continue to raise doubts today. In some areas, such as mental health, these doubts have scarcely been addressed. The present study analyses the effects on psychological distress during the first phase of the pandemic in Chile. A cross-sectional descriptive study was performed by using a questionnaire validated in Spain and adapted for Chile. Between 22 April and 16 December 2020, 3227 questionnaires were collected from the 16 regions of Chile, using non-probabilistic snowball sampling. Bivariate analysis and binary logistic regression were performed. The variables that could predict psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile were: having a poor self-perception of health OR = 4.038, 95% CI = (2.831, 5.758); being younger than 29 OR = 2.287, 95% CI = (1.893, 2.762); having diarrhea OR = 2.093, 95% CI = (1.414, 3.098); having headache OR = 2.019, 95% CI = (1.662, 2.453); being a woman OR = 1.638, 95% CI = (1.363, 1.967); having muscle pain OR = 1.439, 95% CI = (1.114, 1.859); and having had casual contact with an infected person OR = 1.410, 95% CI = (1.138, 1.747). In Chile, with a better social, economic, cultural, and health environment compared to neighboring countries, there has been a high percentage of psychological distress. It is time to prioritize measures to safeguard the mental health of Chileans, especially focused on the most vulnerable population according to our results, i.e., young women with poorer health status.

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Factors Related to Psychological Distress during the First Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Chilean Population

Ruiz‐Frutos

Delgado

Ortega-Moreno

et al. 2021

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“…In Chile this may be because the pluricultural of its population is not recognized, maintaining the idea of a homogeneous population, causing situations of racism and segregation, which recent efforts by the community are trying to reverse (Postero et al 2018). However, Chilean municipalities with larger indigenous populations exhibited high rates of infection and mortality, and this has not been mentioned by the government in its general reports (Millalen et al 2020).…”

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Biodiversity in Times of COVID-19 and its Relationship with the Socio-Economic and Health Context: A Look from the Digital Media

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Muñoz-Carvajal

Wallberg

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Environmental Management

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a pause in people's activities and a socio-economic crisis worldwide due to confinement. This situation is an unprecedented opportunity to understand how these changes may impact biodiversity and its conservation, as well as to study human-nature interaction. Biodiversity plays an essential role in conservation and economic activities, and in countries with greater inequality and low gross domestic product (GDP), biodiversity could have a low priority. Moreover, how biodiversity is prioritized in a society impacts how the citizens view it, and digital news tends to shape biodiversity narratives. The aim of this work was to determine the main trends in biodiversity-related news categories during the COVID-19 pandemic in countries with terrestrial and marine hotspots and relate them to the socioeconomic and public health context of each country. For this, we searched for news on biodiversity and Covid-19 in the first 6 months of the pandemic and related them to GDP, Gini-index, deaths, and infections by Covid-19. Results showed that conservation, public policies, and use of natural resources stood out as the main news categories across countries, with a positive narrative and mostly related to terrestrial rather than marine environments. On the other hand, the socio-economic and public health characteristics of each country had an influence on which aspect of the biodiversity was reflected in the media. For example, countries with greater inequality were associated with tourism news, additionally, countries with low GDP, high cases, and deaths by Covid-19 were associated with news about cultural diversity. In contrast, countries with high GDP and low inequality were associated with news about zoonosis, research and development, public policies, and alien and invasive species.

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“…Emerging evidence from Latin American countries suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected disadvantaged groups with low socioeconomic status as well as indigenous people, with large regional variation. [7][8][9][10] In Chile's capital, Santiago, areas with low socioeconomic status experienced poorer health interventions, and substantial excess mortality coupled with higher number of deaths and infection fatality rates at younger ages. 7 Similarly, municipalities with higher proportions of indigenous population is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) preprint…”

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“…The copyright holder for this this version posted December 9, 2021. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.08.21267475 doi: medRxiv preprint showed higher mortality from COVID-19. 8 It is unclear, however, what the net effect of increased mortality has been on life expectancy at a more granular level of geography and by population subgroups in Chile.…”

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The unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy across Chile

Mena

Aburto

2021

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Objectives: To quantify the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Chile categorized by rural and urban, and to correlate life expectancy changes with socioeconomic factors at the municipal level. Design: Retrospective cross-sectional demographic analysis using aggregated data. Setting: Vital and demographic statistics from the national institute of statistics and department of vital statistics of ministry of health. Participants: Aggregated national all-cause death data stratified by year (2000-2020), sex, and municipality. Main Outcome measures: Stratified mortality rates using a Bayesian methodology. With this, we assessed the unequal impact of the pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across Chilean municipalities for men and women and analyzed previous mortality trends since 2010. Results: Life expectancy declined for both men and women in 2020. Urban areas were the most affected, with males losing 1.89 and females 1.33 in 2020. The strength of the decline in life expectancy correlated with indicators of social deprivation and poverty. Also, inequality in life expectancy between municipalities increased, largely due to excess mortality among the working-age population in socially disadvantaged municipalities. Conclusions: Not only do people in poorer areas live shorter lives, they also have been substantially more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to increased population health inequalities. Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy provides a more comprehensive picture of the toll.

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COVID-19 and Indigenous peoples in Chile: vulnerability to contagion and mortality

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

Factors Related to Psychological Distress during the First Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Chilean Population

Factors Related to Psychological Distress during the First Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Chilean Population

Biodiversity in Times of COVID-19 and its Relationship with the Socio-Economic and Health Context: A Look from the Digital Media

The unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy across Chile

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