COVID-19关于西班牙裔/拉丁裔基本和非基本工人的粮食不安全问题
Tajrian Amad1,2, Pamela Valera3,4,5, Joachim Sackey6,2
1Rutgers University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Piscataway, NJ, United States.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
|March 11, 2024
概括
与非基本工作者相比,COVID-19流行病显著增加了西班牙裔/拉丁裔基本工作者之间的粮食不安全. 针对性的粮食政策对于这个脆弱的人群至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 健康的社会经济决定因素
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- COVID-19大流行的经济影响不成比例地影响了西班牙裔/拉丁裔社区,特别是那些在重要行业的人.
- 这些社区由于工作不稳定和经济不稳定,面临着对粮食不安全的高度脆弱性.
- 了解差异性影响对于公共卫生干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查COVID-19大流行是否影响了美国西班牙裔/拉丁裔基本与非基本工人的粮食安全状况.
- 为了确定与疫情期间的就业状况相关的西班牙裔/拉丁裔人口中的特定脆弱性.
主要方法:
- 一个横截面调查 (COVID-19拉丁裔健康调查) 进行了面对面和虚拟.
- 两变量分析和千平方测试被用来评估基本工人地位与粮食安全变化之间的关联.
- 统计学意义被设定为p<0.05.
主要成果:
- 在869名受访者中,45%是基本工作者,55%是非基本工作者.
- 与非基本工作者 (22%) 相比,基本工作者报告了更高的粮食不安全率 (54%) 和疫情期间增加的粮食不安全率 (35%).
- 在必需和非必需的西班牙裔/拉丁裔工人之间观察到粮食不安全状况的统计学上显著差异 (p < 0.001).
结论:
- 随着COVID-19的流行,西班牙裔/拉丁裔基本工作人员的粮食不安全状况更加严重.
- 迫切需要制定全面的粮食政策,以应对这一人口群体面临的粮食供应挑战.
- 解决西班牙裔/拉丁裔基本工作者面临的与大流行有关的独特挑战对于改善健康和福祉至关重要.
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