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[Monitoring COVID-19 in Spain: is a gender analysis possible?]
Marta Jiménez Carrillo1, Amaia Bacigalupe2, Unai Martín2
1Grupo de Investigación en Determinantes Sociales de la Salud y Cambio Demográfico-OPIK, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Bizkaia, España; Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, OSI Basurto, Centro de Salud Txurdinaga, Osakidetza, Bilbao, Bizkaia, España.
Objective:
To analyse the sex disaggregation and availability of gender indicators in the reports of the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (RENAVE) and the National Study of Sero-Epidemiology (ENE-COVID-19).
Method:
Peer review of indicators available in 72 RENAVE reports and 4 rounds of the ENE-COVID-19 study to calculate the percentage of those disaggregated by sex and their variation over time.
Results:
In March 2021, 52.4% of RENAVE indicators were disaggregated by sex. From July 2020, 54% of disaggregated indicators ceased to be published and 23% lost their disaggregation. In the ENE-COVID-19 study, the 1st round 88,23% of the indicators are disaggregated and the 4th round 94,74%. The 2nd and 3rd round do not disaggregated by sex.
Conclusions:
The RENAVE reports do not allow for a gender-sensitive analysis while the ENE-COVID-19 study provides the most information on social determinants.
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