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GARCIA-MARIN, Anthony  y  GARCIA FERNANDEZ, Raúl. COVID-19 in Costa Rica: longitudinal analysis of the transmission and death rates from the social inequality approach. PSM [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.1, pp.244-280. ISSN 1659-0201.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/psm.v20i1.50200.

Introduction: This article addresses the relationship between the gross rates of transmission and the net death rates from COVID-19 -study variables-, with socioeconomic and health indicators -contrast variables- at four moments of observation during the first year of the syndemic in Costa Rica. The objectives of the research work are: a) identify the moments of observation based on the number of accumulated cases per epidemiological week; b) establish the statistical correlation between the crude rates of transmission and the contrast variables; c) establish the statistical correlation between the net death rates and the contrast variables; d) describe the development of transmission and death rates at the cantonal level, and e) socioeconomically characterize the cantons with very high values in those rates. Methods: A study with a quantitative approach is developed through the statistical method and the application of hypothesis tests at a bivariate level, namely, Pearson and Spearman correlations. Results: The main results indicate that transmission is closely related, mostly, to socioeconomic factors -population density; Social Development Index (IDS); Human Development Index (HDI) and crime rates against property-, while deaths they are related to biological factors such as the rates of diseases -hypertension and respiratory-. Conclusion: The study demonstrates the relationship between disease and social inequalities, that is, how social inequality is reproduced in the field of health.

Palabras clave : COVID-19; Social inequalities; Syndemia; Health risk factors.

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