ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT AND COVID-19 POSITIVE CASES IN PERU

Pascual-Guevara M.; Cabanillas-Lazo M. · Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana (2024) · DOI: 10.25176/rfmh.v24i3.6484

Resumen

Objectives: To identify the association between the number of informal employees and the number of positive COVID-19 cases in Peru.Peru. Methods: We used data from the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru and the National COVID-19 database were used. Bivariate linear regression and multivariate logistic regression were performed to evaluate the number of informal employees, population density and altitude in relation to the number of positive the number of COVID-19 positive cases. Results: Bivariate analysis showed that the number of informal employees was significantly associated with the number of COVID-19 positive cases. Employees was significantly associated with positive cases in both high and low altitude regions. in high and low altitude regions (p<0.001). As for the multivariate multivariate analysis, it was found that the number of informal employees (p<0.001), the population density (p=0.02) and altitude (p<0.001) were associated with the number of COVID-19 positive cases. Conclusions: Informal employees are common in low- and middle-income countries low and middle-income countries where there is no social security and economically dependent on daily wages. Their situation worsened due to the restriction social mobilization, so they were forced to continue working and, as a result, quickly become infected, even more so, becoming a focus of contagion.contagion.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Universidad de Huánuco