Underfunding is linked to high COVID-19 mortality in Spanish nursing homes
Costa-Font, J.
, Jiménez-Martínez, S. & Viola, A.
(14 April 2021)
Underfunding is linked to high COVID-19 mortality in Spanish nursing homes.
LSE Business Review.
, Jiménez-Martínez, S. & Viola, A.
(14 April 2021)
Underfunding is linked to high COVID-19 mortality in Spanish nursing homes.
LSE Business Review.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on older Europeans living in nursing homes. Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, and Analia Viola find evidence consistent with a ‘fatal underfunding hypothesis’, suggesting that the regional variation in nursing home fatalities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain is associated with proxies of underfunding (such as understaffing, larger size nursing homes and occupancy rate).