Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives
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The COVID-19 is disproportionally affecting the poor, minorities and a broad range of vulnerable populations, due to its inequitable spread in areas of dense population and limited mitigation capacity due to high prevalence of chronic conditions or poor access to high quality public health and medical care. Moreover, the collateral effects of the pandemic due to the global economic downturn, and social isolation and movement restriction measures, are unequally affecting those in the lowest power strata of societies. To address the challenges to health equity and describe some of the approaches taken by governments and local organizations, we have compiled 13 country case studies from various regions around the world: China, Brazil, Thailand, Sub Saharan Africa, Nicaragua, Armenia, India, Guatemala, United States of America (USA), Israel, Australia, Colombia, and Belgium. This compilation is by no-means representative or all inclusive, and we encourage researchers to continue advancing global knowledge on COVID-19 health equity related issues, through rigorous research and generation of a strong evidence base of new empirical studies in this field.
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- Authors
- Shadmi, E., Chen, Y., Dourado, I., Faran-Perach, I., Furler, J., Hangoma, P., Hanvoravongchai, P., Obando, C., Petrosyan, V., Rao, K. D., Ruano, A. L., Shi, L., de Souza, L. E., Spitzer-Shohat, S., Sturgiss, E., Suphanchaimat, R., Uribe, M. V., & Willems, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Haifa (IL)
- Fudan University (CN)
- Universidade Federal da Bahia (BR)
- Israel Ministry of Health (IL)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Chr. Michelsen Institute (NO)
- Chulalongkorn University (TH)
- Umeå University (SE)
- American University of Armenia (AM)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Center for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems (GT)
- Monash University (AU)
- Ministry of Public Health (TH)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Shadmi, Efrat
- ORCID
- Venue
- International Journal for Equity in Health
- Published
- 2020-06-26
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 104-104
- ISSN
- 1475-9276 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7316580
- OpenAlex
- W3038070845
- Cited by
- 730
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 87 · 2023: 121 · 2022: 180 · 2021: 205 · 2020: 54
- FWCI
- 77.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal for Equity in Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Greater South Information System
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Public Health Policies and Education
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, health equity, health disparities, vulnerable populations, socioeconomic disparities, economic impact of pandemic, social isolation, health care access, government pandemic response, country case studies
- MeSH terms
- Health Equity, COVID-19, Humans, Pneumonia, Viral, Socioeconomic Factors, Global Health, Coronavirus Infections, Health Status Disparities, Pandemics
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