Socio-demographic perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic

"The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical Modeling; Analyses; and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information; the production of summary...

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Other Authors Swanson, David A. 1946- (Editor), Verdugo, Richard R. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2024]
Subjects
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 > Influence.
United States > Population > History > 21st century.
United States > Statistics, Vital.
Health & Fitness > Diseases & Conditions > Contagious (incl. Pandemics)
Epidemiology and Medical statistics.
Coping with, advice about illness and specific health conditions.
Infectious and contagious diseases.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601455
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-348-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Richard R. Verdugo and David A. Swanson
  • Acknowledgments
  • Section I: Data
  • Chapter 1. The struggle to obtain reliable COVID-19 information / David A. Swanson and Eric G. Tyberg
  • Chapter 2. Producing summary statistics of COVID-19 cases and deaths over time: A note on using geometric measures, not arithmetic ones / Richard Verdugo, Arni S. R. Srinivasa Rao, Steven G. Krantz, and David A. Swanson
  • Chapter 3. The importance of demographic data for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of utah / Mike Hollingshaus and Emily Harris
  • Section II: Modeling
  • Chapter 4. Modeling and the COVID-19 pandemic: A local area perspective / David A. Swanson
  • Chapter 5. A simple method for estimating the number of unconfirmed COVID-19 cases in a local area that includes a confidence interval: A case study of whatcom county, washington / David A. Swanson and Ronald E. Cossman
  • Chapter 6. An early-warning COVID-19 alert and response protocol for seasonal resort communities / David A. Swanson and Peter A. Morrison
  • Section III: Analysis
  • Chapter 7. Viral infections, race, and age in the United States / Neal Marquez, Jessica Godwin, and Sara Curran
  • Chapter 8. Broadband access during a pandemic: 2020 U.S. Census results for the hopi and lummi reservations / David A. Swanson
  • Chapter 9. Matters of life, death, and livelihood: Black lives matters and labor activism during the pandemic / Juliann Allison, Ellen Reese, Jasmine Rocha, and Alessandra Rosales
  • Chapter 10. The relative risk of dying from COVID-19 among those infected reveals a disturbing portrait of both COVID-19 mortality and non-covid-19 mortality in the United States / David A. Swanson, Dudley Poston, Steven G. Krantz, and Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao
  • Chapter 11. The differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on us racial and ethnic groups / Richard K. Thomas and Sabrina Alam
  • Section IV: Policy issues
  • Chapter 12. A danger to public health? Republicanism and the COVID-19 pandemic / David A. Swanson and Eric G. Tyberg
  • Chapter 13. U.s. Policy and COVID-19 cases and deaths: An analysis / Richard R. Verdugo, David A. Swanson, Arni Rao, and Steven Krantz
  • Chapter 14. The coronavirus mortality rates: Race and hispanic ethnic differences / Richard R. Verdugo and Daphany Verdugo Hall
  • Chapter 15. Anti-asian hate during the pandemic / Michael P. Huynh, Anne Saw, and David T. Takeuchi
  • Chapter 16. America's post-pandemic future: A demographic perspective / David A. Swanson, Peter A. Morrison, Dudley Poston, Steven Krantz, and Arni Rao. About the Contributors.

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