Incorporating Health Equity and Community Perspectives During COVID-19: Commonalities with Cardiovascular Health Equity Research.
Ethn Dis
; 30(3): 421-424, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-937789
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the deeply entrenched structural inequities in health that exist in the United States. We draw parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and our cardiovascular health equity research focused on physical activity and diabetes to highlight three common needs 1) access to timely and disaggregated data; 2) how to integrate community-engaged approaches in telehealth; and 3) policy initiatives that explicitly integrate health equity and social justice principles and action. We suggest that a similar sense of urgency regarding COVID-19 should be applied to slow the burgeoning costs and suffering associated with cardiovascular disease overall and in marginalized communities specifically. We remain hopeful that the current crisis can serve as a guide for aligning our principles as a just and democratic society with a health agenda that explicitly recognizes that social inequities in health for some impacts all members of society.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Cardiovascular Diseases
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Coronavirus Infections
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Health Equity
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Ethn Dis
Journal subject:
Social Sciences
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Public Health
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ed.30.3.421
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