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Racial capitalism: a fundamental cause of novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic inequities in the United States.

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Laster Pirtle, Whitney N.·2020·Health Education & Behavior
DOI 10.1177/1090198120922942PMC PMC7301291
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Racial capitalism is a fundamental cause of the racial and socioeconomic inequities within the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in the United States. The overrepresentation of Black death reported in Detroit, Michigan is a case study for this argument. Racism and capitalism mutually construct harmful social conditions that fundamentally shape COVID-19 disease inequities because they (a) shape multiple diseases that interact with COVID-19 to influence poor health outcomes; (b) affect disease outcomes through increasing multiple risk factors for poor, people of color, including racial residential segregation, homelessness, and medical bias; (c) shape access to flexible resources, such as medical knowledge and freedom, which can be used to minimize both risks and the consequences of disease; and (d) replicate historical patterns of inequities within pandemics, despite newer intervening mechanisms thought to ameliorate health consequences. Interventions should address social inequality to achieve health equity across pandemics.

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Authors
Laster Pirtle, W. N.
Affiliations
University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
ORCID
Laster Pirtle, Whitney N.
Venue
Health Education & Behavior
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2020-04-26
Volume
47
Issue
4
Pages
504-508
ISSN
  • 1090-1981 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-6127
DOI
10.1177/1090198120922942
PMC
PMC7301291
OpenAlex
W3019091879
Cited by
619
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 62 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 168 · 2021: 156 · 2020: 69
FWCI
163.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Health Education & Behavior (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
  • Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Keywords
racial capitalism, COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, racial disparities in mortality, African Americans, Detroit, racial residential segregation, homelessness, medical bias, social determinants of health, health equity, structural racism
MeSH terms
Health Equity, Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Michigan, Pneumonia, Viral, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Coronavirus Infections, Capitalism, Health Status Disparities, Pandemics, Racism

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