Social,economic and demographic determinants of risk of death in patients infected with coronavirus: A case study of Ahvaz

Introduction & Objectives: This article studies the determinants of death risk among coronavirus infected patients in Ahvaz. In this regard, we have studied, analyzed and explained the effect of social, economic and demographic variables including age, gender, marital status, income, occupation, education, place of residence, etc. on the risk of death among coronavirus infected patients. Methods: This study was a survey and used a researcher-made questionnaire to collect information. The statistical population is all coronavirus infected patients in the period of march 2020 to September 2021. We used logistic regression with odds ratio report to analyze the data and tested all hypotheses at 95% confidence level. Findings: The results show that the risk of death due to coronavirus infection is very unequal among socio-economic groups and in terms of various variables, so that the risk of death in terms of job variable is higher among business men, drivers, employees and farmers in compared to other occupational groups. People aged 61 to 75 are 68.3 times more likely to die than ones under 30. Married people are 2.49 times more likely to die than single ones.&nbsp