RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Vulnerability and Covid-19 infection rates across Málaga neighbourhoods (Spain)
A1 Bárcena-Martín, Elena María
A1 Molina-Luque, Julián
A1 Muñoz Fernández, Ana
A1 Pérez-Moreno, Salvador Jesús
K1 COVID-19
K1 Infecciones por coronavirus
K1 Epidemias - Factores de riesgo
K1 Málaga - Censos
K1 Vulnerabilidad
K1 Barrios pobres
K1 Vigilancia epidemiológica
AB This study examines the relationship between multidimensional vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates across Malaga’s census tracts for the period February 2020 to February 2021. Malaga is a cosmopolitan tourist destination on the southern Mediterranean coast that has the sixth largest population in Spain. The analysis uses high frequency (daily) data on the accumulated incidence of the disease at 14 days and shows that COVID-19 did not spread symmetrically across the census tracts of Malaga but had a greater impact on the most vulnerable neighbourhoods. However, the pattern of this relationship was not uniform in the period examined, with specific contextual factors driving the higher infection rates across time. Our findings show that pandemic containment regulations cannot overlook vulnerability considerations and universal restrictions to reduce the spread of disease should be supplemented by targeted regulations for specific areas.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24199
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24199
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026