COVID-19 Variability Within European Countries Sourced From ECDC Data. Is Variability Explained by Specific Country Policies?
COVID-19
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
epidemiology
health policy
variability
Journal
Frontiers in public health
ISSN: 2296-2565
Titre abrégé: Front Public Health
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101616579
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
06
07
2021
accepted:
28
12
2021
entrez:
4
2
2022
pubmed:
5
2
2022
medline:
9
2
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Europe has had a large variability in COVID-19 incidence between and within countries, particularly after June 2020. We aim to assess the variability between European countries and regions located in a given country. We used ECDC information including countries having 7 regions or more. The metric used to assess the regional variability within a country was the intercuartilic range in a weekly basis for 32 weeks between June 29 The variability between and within countries was large. Slovenia, Spain and Portugal have the greatest variability. Spain and Slovenia held also the top three places for the greatest number of weeks (Spain for 19 weeks and Slovenia for 10) with the highest variability. For variability among the incidence curves across the 32-week period, Slovenia, Portugal and Spain ranked first in functional variability, when all the regions were analysed but also when the island regions were excluded. These differences might be due to how countries tackled the epidemiological situation. The persistent variability in COVID-19 incidence between regions of a given country suggests that governmental action may have an important role in applying epidemiological control measures.
Sections du résumé
Background
Europe has had a large variability in COVID-19 incidence between and within countries, particularly after June 2020. We aim to assess the variability between European countries and regions located in a given country.
Methods
We used ECDC information including countries having 7 regions or more. The metric used to assess the regional variability within a country was the intercuartilic range in a weekly basis for 32 weeks between June 29
Results
The variability between and within countries was large. Slovenia, Spain and Portugal have the greatest variability. Spain and Slovenia held also the top three places for the greatest number of weeks (Spain for 19 weeks and Slovenia for 10) with the highest variability. For variability among the incidence curves across the 32-week period, Slovenia, Portugal and Spain ranked first in functional variability, when all the regions were analysed but also when the island regions were excluded.
Conclusions
These differences might be due to how countries tackled the epidemiological situation. The persistent variability in COVID-19 incidence between regions of a given country suggests that governmental action may have an important role in applying epidemiological control measures.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35118037
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.737133
pmc: PMC8805795
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
737133Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Ruano-Ravina, López-Vizcaíno, Candal-Pedreira, Santiago-Pérez and Pérez-Ríos.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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