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Community Engagement of African Americans in the Era of COVID-19: Considerations, Challenges, Implications, and Recommendations for Public Health

African Americans, compared with all other racial/ethnic groups, are more likely to contract coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), be hospitalized for it, and die of the disease. Psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental vulnerabilities, compounded by preexisting health conditions, exacerbate th...

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Autores principales: Henry Akintobi, Tabia, Jacobs, Theresa, Sabbs, Darrell, Holden, Kisha, Braithwaite, Ronald, Johnson, L. Neicey, Dawes, Daniel, Hoffman, LaShawn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32790605
http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.200255
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author Henry Akintobi, Tabia
Jacobs, Theresa
Sabbs, Darrell
Holden, Kisha
Braithwaite, Ronald
Johnson, L. Neicey
Dawes, Daniel
Hoffman, LaShawn
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Jacobs, Theresa
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Holden, Kisha
Braithwaite, Ronald
Johnson, L. Neicey
Dawes, Daniel
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description African Americans, compared with all other racial/ethnic groups, are more likely to contract coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), be hospitalized for it, and die of the disease. Psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental vulnerabilities, compounded by preexisting health conditions, exacerbate this health disparity. Interconnected historical, policy, clinical, and community factors explain and underpin community-based participatory research approaches to advance the art and science of community engagement among African Americans in the COVID-19 era. In this commentary, we detail the pandemic response strategies of the Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center. We discuss the implications of these complex factors and propose recommendations for addressing them that, adopted together, will result in community and data-informed mitigation strategies. These approaches will proactively prepare for the next pandemic and advance community leadership toward health equity.
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spelling pubmed-74581032020-09-04 Community Engagement of African Americans in the Era of COVID-19: Considerations, Challenges, Implications, and Recommendations for Public Health Henry Akintobi, Tabia Jacobs, Theresa Sabbs, Darrell Holden, Kisha Braithwaite, Ronald Johnson, L. Neicey Dawes, Daniel Hoffman, LaShawn Prev Chronic Dis Commentary African Americans, compared with all other racial/ethnic groups, are more likely to contract coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), be hospitalized for it, and die of the disease. Psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental vulnerabilities, compounded by preexisting health conditions, exacerbate this health disparity. Interconnected historical, policy, clinical, and community factors explain and underpin community-based participatory research approaches to advance the art and science of community engagement among African Americans in the COVID-19 era. In this commentary, we detail the pandemic response strategies of the Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center. We discuss the implications of these complex factors and propose recommendations for addressing them that, adopted together, will result in community and data-informed mitigation strategies. These approaches will proactively prepare for the next pandemic and advance community leadership toward health equity. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7458103/ /pubmed/32790605 http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.200255 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Preventing Chronic Disease is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Henry Akintobi, Tabia
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Johnson, L. Neicey
Dawes, Daniel
Hoffman, LaShawn
Community Engagement of African Americans in the Era of COVID-19: Considerations, Challenges, Implications, and Recommendations for Public Health
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32790605
http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.200255
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