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A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity
Physical distancing requirements due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has increased the need for broadband internet access. The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as non-medical factors that impact health outcomes by affecting the conditions in which people are bor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9339607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35924138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.897250 |
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author | McCall, Terika Asuzu, Kammarauche Oladele, Carol R. Leung, Tiffany I. Wang, Karen H. |
author_facet | McCall, Terika Asuzu, Kammarauche Oladele, Carol R. Leung, Tiffany I. Wang, Karen H. |
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description | Physical distancing requirements due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has increased the need for broadband internet access. The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as non-medical factors that impact health outcomes by affecting the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age. By this definition broadband internet access is a social determinant of health. Digital redlining—the systematic process by which specific groups are deprived of equal access to digital tools such as the internet—creates inequities in access to educational and employment opportunities, as well as healthcare and health information. Although it is known that internet service providers systematically exclude low-income communities from broadband service, little has been done to stop this discriminatory practice. In this paper, we seek to amplify the call to action against the practice of digital redlining in the United States, describe how it contributes to health disparities broadly and within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and use a socio-ecological framework to propose short- and long-term actions to address this inequity. |
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spelling | pubmed-93396072022-08-02 A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity McCall, Terika Asuzu, Kammarauche Oladele, Carol R. Leung, Tiffany I. Wang, Karen H. Front Digit Health Digital Health Physical distancing requirements due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has increased the need for broadband internet access. The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as non-medical factors that impact health outcomes by affecting the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age. By this definition broadband internet access is a social determinant of health. Digital redlining—the systematic process by which specific groups are deprived of equal access to digital tools such as the internet—creates inequities in access to educational and employment opportunities, as well as healthcare and health information. Although it is known that internet service providers systematically exclude low-income communities from broadband service, little has been done to stop this discriminatory practice. In this paper, we seek to amplify the call to action against the practice of digital redlining in the United States, describe how it contributes to health disparities broadly and within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and use a socio-ecological framework to propose short- and long-term actions to address this inequity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9339607/ /pubmed/35924138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.897250 Text en Copyright © 2022 McCall, Asuzu, Oladele, Leung and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Digital Health McCall, Terika Asuzu, Kammarauche Oladele, Carol R. Leung, Tiffany I. Wang, Karen H. A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity |
title | A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity |
title_full | A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity |
title_fullStr | A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity |
title_full_unstemmed | A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity |
title_short | A Socio-Ecological Approach to Addressing Digital Redlining in the United States: A Call to Action for Health Equity |
title_sort | socio-ecological approach to addressing digital redlining in the united states: a call to action for health equity |
topic | Digital Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9339607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35924138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.897250 |
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