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Immigrant Communities and COVID-19: Strengthening the Public Health Response.
- Source :
- American Journal of Public Health; 2021 Suppl 3, Vol. 111, pS224-S231, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the many broken fragments of US health care and social service systems, reinforcing extant health and socioeconomic inequities faced by structurally marginalized immigrant communities. Throughout the pandemic, even during the most critical period of rising cases in different epicenters, immigrants continued to work in high-risk-exposure environments while simultaneously having less access to health care and economic relief and facing discrimination. We describe systemic factors that have adversely affected low-income immigrants, including limiting their work opportunities to essential jobs, living in substandard housing conditions that do not allow for social distancing or space to safely isolate from others in the household, and policies that discourage access to public resources that are available to them or that make resources completely inaccessible. We demonstrate that the current public health infrastructure has not improved health care access or linkages to necessary services, treatments, or culturally competent health care providers, and we provide suggestions for how the Public Health 3.0 framework could advance this. We recommend the following strategies to improve the Public Health 3.0 public health infrastructure and mitigate widening disparities: (1) address the social determinants of health, (2) broaden engagement with stakeholders across multiple sectors, and (3) develop appropriate tools and technologies. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(S3):S224–S231. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306433) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HEALTH of immigrants
COVID-19 pandemic
HEALTH equity
PUBLIC health
COMMUNITIES
SOCIAL distancing
FOREIGN workers
HOUSING & health
IMMIGRANTS
HEALTH services accessibility
IMMUNIZATION
INCOME
SOCIAL determinants of health
MENTAL health
REPRODUCTIVE health
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
RESIDENTIAL patterns
HEALTH policy
FOOD security
COVID-19 testing
COVID-19 vaccines
HOUSING
STAKEHOLDER analysis
EMPLOYMENT
LABOR supply
SEXUAL health
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00900036
- Volume :
- 111
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153288030
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2021.306433