Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic

Burdorf, Alex, Porru, Fabio, Rugulies, Reiner

2021

Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic is discussed. This report points to the importance of occupation as a risk factor but also to the availability and use of appropriate personal protection to mitigate the risk of becoming infected. In addition, well-established socioeconomic factors of health inequalities intermingled with occupations at risk, demonstrated by the fact that most taxi drivers belonged to the same ethnic group and that taxi drivers had higher mortality rates when residing in London. These findings are mirrored in a recent preprint publication from the US state of California, reporting that relative excess mortality was particularly high among food/agriculture, transportation/logistics, facilities, and manufacturing workers.

• Publisher: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health,Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health,Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health,Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH)
• Subject: Adaptation, Psychological / Agriculture / coronavirus / Coronaviruses / covid / COVID-19 / COVID-19 - epidemiology / COVID-19 - prevention & control / COVID-19 - psychology / Editorial / Employment / Ethnic groups / Food / Health disparities / Healthy food / Humans / Inequality / Infections / Life expectancy / Logistics / Medical personnel / Mental Health / Minority & ethnic groups / Mortality / Mortality rates / Occupational Exposure - prevention & control / Occupational Health / occupational perspective / Occupations / Occupations - classification / Occupations - statistics & numerical data / pandemic / Pandemics / Population / Professionals / Public health / Risk / Risk analysis / Risk factors / Risk reduction / SARS-CoV-2 / Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 / Social factors / Socioeconomic data / Socioeconomic Factors / Socioeconomics / States / Taxicabs / Teleworking / Workers / Working conditions