Community vulnerability to the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative synthesis from an ecological perspective

• DOI: 10.7189/jogh.12.05054
• Publication Date: 2022-12-03T18:48:10Z
• Authors: Qiuyan Liao; Meihong Dong; Jiehu Yuan; Wendy Wing Tak Lam; Richard Fielding
• Keywords: Pandemic; Vulnerability; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

We aimed to conduct a narrative synthesis of components and indicators community vulnerability pandemic discuss their interrelationships from an ecological perspective.We searched PubMed, Embase, Web Science, PsycINFO, Scopus (updated November 2021) for studies focusing on caused by novel respiratory viruses geographic unit basis . Studies that reported the associations levels with at least one disease morbidity or mortality outcome were included.Forty-one included. All about COVID-19 pandemic. Suitable temperature humidity environments, advanced social human development (including high population density mobility, connectivity, occupations), settings intensified physical interactions are important viral exposure. However, eventual health impacts predominant in communities faced environmental pollution, higher proportions socioeconomically deprived people, deprivation, poor-condition households, limited access preventive care urban infrastructure, uneven development, racism. More stringent distancing policies associated lower only early phases. Prolonged can disproportionately burden socially disadvantaged racially/ethnically marginalized groups.Community is foremost systems shaped complex between systems.PROSPERO (CRD42021266186).