• Health economics · Jul 2021

    The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy.

    • Caterina Alacevich, Nicolò Cavalli, Osea Giuntella, Raffaele Lagravinese, Francesco Moscone, and Catia Nicodemo.
    • Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
    • Health Econ. 2021 Jul 1; 30 (7): 1703-1710.

    AbstractThis paper explores the relationship between the spatial distribution of excess deaths and the presence of care home facilities during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data for Lombardy, one of the areas most severely hit by the pandemic we show that the presence of a care home in a municipality is associated with significantly higher excess death rates in the population. This effect appears to be driven by excess mortality in the elderly population of 70 years old and older. Our results are robust to controlling for the number of residents in each care home, suggesting that the presence of such facilities may have acted as one of factors contributing to the diffusion of COVID-19 at the local level.© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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