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Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane
The disparate effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus on communities of color, paired with disjointed federal and local responses to the pandemic and the ongoing examples of structural racism’s effects on health, highlight the need for physician advocacy on behalf of patient...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7665637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa510 |
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description | The disparate effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus on communities of color, paired with disjointed federal and local responses to the pandemic and the ongoing examples of structural racism’s effects on health, highlight the need for physician advocacy on behalf of patients. The job of infectious disease physicians has always involved caring for the “whole patient,” but the need for advocacy around issues related to racism, housing, food insecurity, substance use disorders, and mental health has increased. Advocacy at all levels—local, regional, and national—can make a difference and be a profoundly rewarding part of the career of an infectious disease/HIV physician. |
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spelling | pubmed-76656372020-11-16 Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane Person, Anna K Open Forum Infect Dis Perspectives The disparate effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus on communities of color, paired with disjointed federal and local responses to the pandemic and the ongoing examples of structural racism’s effects on health, highlight the need for physician advocacy on behalf of patients. The job of infectious disease physicians has always involved caring for the “whole patient,” but the need for advocacy around issues related to racism, housing, food insecurity, substance use disorders, and mental health has increased. Advocacy at all levels—local, regional, and national—can make a difference and be a profoundly rewarding part of the career of an infectious disease/HIV physician. Oxford University Press 2020-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7665637/ /pubmed/33235891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa510 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Perspectives Person, Anna K Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane |
title | Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane |
title_full | Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane |
title_fullStr | Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane |
title_full_unstemmed | Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane |
title_short | Infectious Diseases and Advocacy: This Is our Lane |
title_sort | infectious diseases and advocacy: this is our lane |
topic | Perspectives |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7665637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa510 |
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