The new coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is the greatest public health emergency facing the international community in decades. Aside from the concerns related to the physical health, it also brings concerns related to the psychological distress that the general population and health professionals may experience. The aim of the current study was to systematize knowledge of impacts on mental health and psychologi...
Objective: To assess, through space-time analyses, whether the economic inequality of the Federative Units (FU) in Brazil can be associated with the risk of infection and death by COVID-19. Methods: This was an ecological study, based on secondary data on incidence and mortality rates for COVID-19. Data were analyzed at the state level, having the Gini coefficient as the main independent variable. Records of tw...