Bias Reduction, Better Access Key to COVID-19 Equity Gains

AJMC April 14, 2025
Maggie L. Shaw

Key Takeaways

• Targeted interventions at patient, provider, and health system levels can optimize COVID-19 management in disproportionately affected communities.
• Multilevel assessments revealed increased vaccination rates and reduced disparities between Black and White patients.
• Challenges include delayed testing, care-seeking, medication concerns, and communication biases.
• Continued efforts are needed to scale up interventions, understand local contexts, and conduct long-term impact assessments to enhance health equity.

Interventions that target enhancing health care equity among communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can be improved by including comprehensive needs assessments at the patient, provider, and health system levels.

COVID-19 management in communities disproportionately adversely affected by the pandemic can best be optimized by targeted interventions informed by comprehensive health needs assessments at...

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