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Advisory Committee Chair

Emily Levitan

Advisory Committee Members

Dustin Long

Bertha Hidalgo

Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

2022

Degree Name by School

Master of Science (MS) School of Public Health

Abstract

Objective: Analyze county level socioeconomic factors and their association with Covid-19 excess mortality in Alabama.Methods: Linear regression analyses were used to evaluate the association between potential risk factors assessed using the American Community survey (n = 40 counties and county clusters) and excess mortality in 2020 per 100,000 population. Excess mortality came from a previously published paper by Ackley et al. Results: Median household income (per 1,000 dollars); an average county median household income that 1,000 dollars higher was associated with 6 per 100,000 lower excess mortality (β= -5.953 p-value

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