COVID-19 burden, author affiliation and women’s well-being: COVID-19 related publications including focus on low- and middle-income countries

This dataset includes three versions of the data gathered by the UCSD Center on Gender Equity and Health as part of a literature review on COVID-19 publications related to women's well-being indexed through May 2021. We conducted a recurring literature review of academic articles related to COVID-19 and women's well-being in LMIC. Six electronic bibliographic databases [PubMed (pubmed.gov), Web of Science (Clarivate), PsycINFO (ProQuest), EconLit (EBSCO), NBER (nper.org) and RePeC (repec.org)] were searched for peer-reviewed literature and working papers. The reviews were conducted every 1-2 weeks between June 2020 and May 2021, thus covering all relevant articles on COVID-19 and gender indexed in the selected databases through 28th May 2021. Our search criteria were developed by gender research experts, and included terms related to five broad thematic areas related to COVID-19 and gender: a) Women and girls’ health, b) Gendered social impacts (including norms), c) Gendered economic impacts, d) Women’s collectives, and e) Women’s leadership (search terms in Appendix Table 1). Identified studies were then screened by a study researcher for the following eligibility criteria: including any data or findings focused on a LMIC, including any empirical analyses, and including any finding on the gendered aspects of social, economic and health impacts of the pandemic and spread containment responses in LMIC contexts. We excluded studies which had no empirical analysis (e.g. opinion or commentary pieces with no data analysis), were not in English, did not have full-text available, did not include focus on at least one LMIC, were missing basic study information (e.g. publication date, details on country/countries of focus, information on methods/analyses used), or were clearly off-topic.

Four country-level variables were also included in this analysis. Country level data on COVID-19 cases and deaths were extracted from the World Health Organization database (https://covid19.who.int/). Countries were classified by income group (upper-middle income/ lower-middle income/ lower-income) using the World Bank income groupings (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups). Gender Inequality Index (GII) 2019 rankings were obtained from the United Nations Development Program, and total development assistance received by countries from donors in 2019 was obtained from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) database (https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=REF_TOTALRECPTS).

The study protocol was registered with Figshare (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12830513.v3).

本数据集囊括了加州大学圣地亚哥分校性别平等与健康中心在2021年5月之前，对与女性福祉相关的COVID-19出版物进行文献综述所收集的三种数据版本。本研究持续对与COVID-19及女性福祉相关的学术文章进行文献回顾，涵盖低中等收入国家（LMIC）。我们检索了六个电子书目数据库，包括PubMed（pubmed.gov）、Web of Science（Clarivate）、PsycINFO（ProQuest）、EconLit（EBSCO）、NBER（nper.org）和RePeC（repec.org），以获取同行评审的文献和工作论文。从2020年6月至2021年5月，每隔1-2周进行一次文献回顾，从而覆盖了截至2021年5月28日在所选数据库中索引的所有与COVID-19和性别相关的相关文章。文献回顾的标准由性别研究专家制定，包括与以下五个广泛主题领域相关的术语：a）女性和女孩的健康，b）性别化的社会影响（包括规范），c）性别化的经济影响，d）女性集体，以及e）女性的领导力（搜索词详见附录表1）。随后，由研究研究员对符合以下资格标准的研究进行筛选：包括任何针对LMIC的数据或发现，包括任何实证分析，以及包括任何关于疫情及其在LMIC背景下的传播遏制响应中社会、经济和健康影响的性别化方面的发现。排除那些没有实证分析（例如，没有数据分析的意见或评论文章）、非英文、无全文、未包含至少一个LMIC的焦点、缺乏基本研究信息（例如，出版日期、焦点国家/地区的详细信息、关于方法/分析的信息）或明显离题的研究。此外，还纳入了四个国家层面的变量。从世界卫生组织数据库（https://covid19.who.int/）提取了COVID-19病例和死亡的国家级数据。国家按收入群体（上中等收入/下中等收入/低收入）分类，采用世界银行的收入分组（https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups）。2019年性别不平等指数（GII）排名数据来源于联合国开发计划署，2019年各国从捐助者那里获得的总发展援助数据来源于经济合作与发展组织（OECD）数据库（https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=REF_TOTALRECPTS）。本研究方案已在Figshare注册（https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12830513.v3）。