Ethnic-Racial Disparity and Mortality Due to Covid-19: Case Study of Two Medium-Sized Cities

Gariboti, Diuster de Franceschi; Silva Júnior, Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da

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Papers • Soc. nat. 34 • 2022 • https://doi.org/10.14393/SN-v34-2022-64009 copy

Ethnic-Racial Disparity and Mortality Due to Covid-19: Case Study of Two Medium-Sized Cities

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Abstract

Ethnic-racial disparity is a disturbing adversity that is present in the current context of Brazilian society. During the New Coronavirus pandemic, different countries around the world pointed out the relationship between this and other socioeconomic vulnerabilities and mortality from the virus. This research aimed to analyze and substantiate how an ethnic-racial disparity was present during the COVID-19 pandemic, contextualizing the problem from the analysis of two medium-sized cities located in Rio Grande do Sul: Rio Grande, RS and Pelotas, RS. The article was based on the hypothetical-deductive approach method, with the use of the bibliographic research technique together with the case study, in which the general mortality rates of the population and the mortality stratified among whites, blacks and browns were estimated, based on data from the Civil Registry of Deaths in the cities mentioned. The results obtained in the present study show higher mortality rates among blacks than among whites (an increase of 36% in Rio Grande and 46% in Pelotas), similarly to results obtained in other studies that investigated Brazilian metropolises. In the meantime, the findings of this study expand the issue of ethnic-racial disparity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic beyond the large Brazilian metropolises and highlight a structural problem in medium-sized cities.

Keywords:
New coronavirus; Racism; Mortality; Social vulnerability

Age group	General population	White	Black	Brown
0 to 9 years	1	0	0	1
10 to 19 years	0	0	0	0
20 to 29 years	4	4	0	0
30 to 39 years	9	6	2	1
40 to 49 years	19	13	5	1
50 to 59 years	40	30	9	0
60 to 69 years	81	69	8	4
70 years or older	179	154	15	10
Total	333	276	39	17

Age group	General population	White	Black	Brown	Standard population (100 thousand inhabitants)
0 to 9 years	41069	32013	4408	4462	11969
10 to 19 years	54860	41366	6988	6232	15988
20 to 29 years	57923	46373	6719	4549	16881
30 to 39 years	47764	38870	5262	3345	13920
40 to 49 years	47416	38771	4927	3557	13819
50 to 59 years	42052	35018	4023	2727	12255
60 to 69 years	28179	24046	2402	1603	8212
70 years or older	23868	20780	1662	1274	6956
Total	343132	277237	36391	27750	100000

Age group	General population	White	Black	Brown
0 to 9 years	1	1	0	0
10 to 19 years	2	2	0	0
20 to 29 years	3	2	1	0
30 to 39 years	5	5	0	0
40 to 49 years	9	8	0	1
50 to 59 years	26	21	3	2
60 to 69 years	49	40	6	3
70 years or older	127	107	10	10
Total	222	186	20	16

Age group	General population	White	Black	Brown	Standard population (100 thousand inhabitants)
0 to 9 years	27618	21239	2025	4217	13030
10 to 19 years	34808	26264	3507	4908	16422
20 to 29 years	35876	28701	3139	3768	16926
30 to 39 years	29828	23443	2951	3295	14072
40 to 49 years	28390	22763	2568	2899	13394
50 to 59 years	25995	21460	1982	2416	12264
60 to 69 years	15974	13439	1030	1407	7536
70 years or older	13476	11457	864	1081	6358
Total	211965	168766	18065	23991	100000

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[1] AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTION

Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da Silva Júnior managed the project, performed the formal analysis, conceptualized and curated the data. Diuster by Franceschi Gariboti did the first writing and wrote the article. Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da Silva Júnior reviewed, edited, investigated, carried out the methodology and obtained funding. All authors wrote and approved the final text of the manuscript.