TY - JOUR
AU - Mikolai, Júlia
AU - Keenan, Katherine
AU - Kulu, Hill
PY - 2020
DA - May
TI - Household level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the COVID-19 crisis: an analysis from the UK
JO - SocArXiv
VL - 12
DO - https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4wtz8
AB - Objectives. To investigate how COVID-19-related health and socio-economic vulnerabilities occur at the household level, and how they are distributed across household types and geographical areas in the United Kingdom. Design. Cross-sectional, nationally representative study. Setting. The United Kingdom. Participants. ~19,500 households. Main outcome measures. Using multiple household-level indicators and principal components analysis, we derive summary measures representing different dimensions of household vulnerabilities critical during the COVID-19 epidemic: health, employment, housing, financial and digital. Results. Our analysis highlights three key findings. First, although COVID-19 health risks are concentrated in retirement-age households, a substantial proportion of working age households also face these risks. Second, different types of households exhibit different vulnerabilities, with working-age households more likely to face financial, housing and employment precarities, and retirement-age households health and digital vulnerabilities. Third, there are area-level differences in the distribution of vulnerabilities across England and the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Conclusions. The findings imply that the short- and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis are likely to vary by household type. Policy measures that aim to mitigate the health and socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic should consider how vulnerabilities cluster together across different household types, and how these may exacerbate already existing inequalities.
PB - Elsevier
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19971
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Socioeconomic factors
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