Underfunding is linked to high COVID-19 mortality in Spanish nursing homes

Costa-Font, Joan ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919, Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi and Viola, Analía (2021) Underfunding is linked to high COVID-19 mortality in Spanish nursing homes. LSE Business Review (14 Apr 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on older Europeans living in nursing homes. Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, and Analia Viola find evidence consistent with a ‘fatal underfunding hypothesis’, suggesting that the regional variation in nursing home fatalities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain is associated with proxies of underfunding (such as understaffing, larger size nursing homes and occupancy rate).

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE Health Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	27 May 2021 10:09
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 20:41
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110571

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