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COVID-19, social determinants, and African American-White disparities: policy response and pathways forward
Lonnie R Snowden1, Genevieve Graaf2
1School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. snowden@berkeley.edu.
Abstract:
COVID-19 translated African Americans' greater social, economic, and health-related risk, reflecting adverse Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), into greater COVID morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality, and it threatened to enlarge the very risks causing greater COVID suffering. However, following a federal policy response injecting trillions of dollars into the US economy, longstanding African American-White disparities in economic well-being, insurance coverage, vaccination rates, and evictions declined. On the other hand, troubling and consequential disparities in k-12 academic achievement and college attendance disparities widened. Continuous monitoring and careful research are needed to document and explain trajectories in social determinant disparities and to offer insight into how policy intervention can decrease continuing disparities in economic well-being, health care, and housing stability.
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