How families matter for health inequality during the COVID‐19 pandemic
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We theorize that the social conditions surrounding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic have the potential to increase the importance of families for health and widen existing inequalities. We suggest three primary tenets important for understanding families and health during COVID‐19. First, risks of specific COVID‐19 outcomes and other health problems are unevenly distributed across families. Second, how families impact health during the COVID‐19 pandemic is conditional on public policies, organizational decisions, and concurrent events. Third, many health inequalities driven by racism, sexism, classism, and other oppressive societal forces are amplified during COVID‐19, but the extent to which this is occurring is shaped by families and by the public policies, organizational decisions, and concurrent events that also impact families and health. As health disparities continue to emerge from this pandemic, we call on researchers and policymakers to pay attention to the multiple ways that families matter.
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COVID-19 has widened gaps among married people, single people, those living with others, and those living in isolation.
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- Authors
- Thomeer, M. B., Yahirun, J., & Colón‐López, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Bowling Green State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Thomeer, Mieke Beth
- Venue
- Journal of Family Theory & Review
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020-12
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 448-463
- ISSN
- 1756-2570 (ISSN-L)
- 1756-2589
- PMC
- PMC8034594
- OpenAlex
- W3114398694
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 7
- FWCI
- 2.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Family Theory & Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG069251)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD050959, R24HD050959)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, family, racism, sexism, classism, public policy, organizational decision-making, family health
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