Addressing the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color

With Black and Hispanic communities across the USA experiencing more detrimental negative effects from the COVID-19 pandemic as compared with other demographic groups, the virus has exposed the racial and ethnic disparities in treatment and care that public health experts have been grappling with fo...

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Autor principal: Graham, Garth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Perspective Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7978471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33742351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-00989-7
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description With Black and Hispanic communities across the USA experiencing more detrimental negative effects from the COVID-19 pandemic as compared with other demographic groups, the virus has exposed the racial and ethnic disparities in treatment and care that public health experts have been grappling with for years. This paper explains how the systematic collection of racial and ethnic data gleaned from COVID-19 testing in underserved communities can be used to better understand this pandemic and inform measures within our control to prevent the spread of disease in the future.
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spelling pubmed-79784712021-03-23 Addressing the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color Graham, Garth J Racial Ethn Health Disparities Perspective Article With Black and Hispanic communities across the USA experiencing more detrimental negative effects from the COVID-19 pandemic as compared with other demographic groups, the virus has exposed the racial and ethnic disparities in treatment and care that public health experts have been grappling with for years. This paper explains how the systematic collection of racial and ethnic data gleaned from COVID-19 testing in underserved communities can be used to better understand this pandemic and inform measures within our control to prevent the spread of disease in the future. Springer International Publishing 2021-03-19 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7978471/ /pubmed/33742351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-00989-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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