Health Inequities & Covid-19

If history is a guide, infectious diseases exploit inequities not just within societies but between them - Kyle Harper

Health Inequities & Covid-19
Health Inequities & Covid-19

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For most of human history, the majority of people died of infectious disease. Scourges like tuberculosis, typhoid, plague, smallpox, and (in some places) malaria carried most people to their graves, many as infants or children. As public health and biomedicine advanced, cancers and organ diseases replaced microbes as the main causes of mortality. The control of infectious disease, and consequent doubling of average life expectancy, helped to bring the modern world as we know it into being. But paradoxically, the control of infectious disease also helped to widen health inequities, both within and between societies.

COVID-19 now appears to be falling along these familiar lines. The…

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Advancing Health Equity

Despite significant advances in healthcare innovation and technology, racialized health inequities have persisted and even worsened over the last century. These trends persist due to the expansive reach of systemic racism on Black communities and other communities of color. Healthcare organizations must act now to mitigate the root causes of these inequities.

APHA

Creating health equity is a guiding priority and core value of APHA. By health equity, we mean everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health.

CDC

Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing efforts to address avoidable inequities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and healthcare disparities. The population health impact of COVID-19 has exposed longstanding inequities that have systematically undermined the physical, social, economic, and emotional health of racial and ethnic minority populations and other population groups that are bearing a disproportionate burden of COVID-19.

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