Socio‐economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “Can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the spanish regions?: an ecological study”

Environmental Health

Arthit Phosri¹  Kouji H. Harada²  Mariko Harada Sassa²  Yang Cao³ 

[1] Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, 10400, Bangkok, Thailand;Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida Konoe, 6068501, Kyoto, Sakyo, Japan;Department of Preventive Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2168511, Kawasaki, Japan;

关键词: Socio‐economic factors;    Climatic factors;    COVID-19;    Ultraviolet radiation;    Statistical analyses;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12940-021-00701-6

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

A report published in this journal showed an inversely significant association between ultraviolet radiation (UVR) before the pandemic and cumulative COVID-19 cases in Spain. The analyses employed several meteorological factors, but socio-economic factors were not included. We examined the associations of COVID-19 cases with selected factors and found a significance on gross domestic product per capita (p = 0.037 by Spearman’s correlation). Hence, simple regression analyses of UVR would be confounded with regional difference in economic activities. In addition, we raised several questions for limitations due to the study design and analyses.

【 授权许可】

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