National movement patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: The unexplored role of neighbourhood deprivation

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dc.contributor.authorSabel CE
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy J
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Malcolm
dc.contributor.authorMarek, Lukas
dc.contributor.authorWiki, Jesse
dc.contributor.authorHobbs, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorKingham, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-07T20:51:23Z
dc.date.available2021-11-07T20:51:23Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.date.updated2021-09-30T23:09:59Z
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has asked unprecedented questions of governments around the world. Policy responses have disrupted usual patterns of movement in society, locally and globally, with resultant impacts on national economies and human well-being. These interventions have primarily centred on enforcing lockdowns and introducing social distancing recommendations, leading to questions of trust and competency around the role of institutions and the administrative apparatus of state. This study demonstrates the unequal societal impacts in population movement during a national ‘lockdown’. We use nationwide mobile phone movement data to quantify the effect of an enforced lockdown on population mobility by neighbourhood deprivation using an ecological study design. We then derive a mobility index using anonymised aggregated population counts for each neighbourhood (2253 Census Statistical Areas; mean population n=2086) of national hourly mobile phone location data (7.45 million records, 1 March 2020–20 July 2020) for New Zealand (NZ). Curtailing movement has highlighted and exacerbated underlying social and spatial inequalities. Our analysis reveals the unequal movements during ‘lockdown’ by neighbourhood socioeconomic status in NZ. In understanding inequalities in neighbourhood movements, we are contributing critical new evidence to the policy debate about the impact(s) and efficacy of national, regional or local lockdowns which have sparked such controversy.en
dc.identifier.citationCampbell M, Marek L, Wiki J, Hobbs M, Sabel CE, McCarthy J, Kingham S (2021). National movement patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: The unexplored role of neighbourhood deprivation. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 75(9). 903-905.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-216108
dc.identifier.issn0143-005X
dc.identifier.issn1470-2738
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/102885
dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBMJen
dc.rights© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.en
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectHumansen
dc.subjectCommunicable Disease Controlen
dc.subjectNew Zealanden
dc.subjectPandemicsen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectSARS-CoV-2en
dc.subject.anzsrc1117 Public Health and Health Servicesen
dc.subject.anzsrc1604 Human Geographyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::44 - Human society::4406 - Human geography::440603 - Economic geographyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::44 - Human society::4406 - Human geography::440611 - Transport geographyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::42 - Health sciences::4206 - Public health::420602 - Health equityen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::42 - Health sciences::4202 - Epidemiology::420210 - Social epidemiologyen
dc.titleNational movement patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: The unexplored role of neighbourhood deprivationen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Science
uc.departmentSchool of Earth and Environment
uc.departmentSchool of Health Sciences
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