Patient Engagement April 29, 2021
Access to green space helped stave off some COVID-19 racial health disparities, underscoring its importance as a social determinant of health.
Green space, an increasingly recognized social determinant of health, has been linked to lower racial health disparities related to the novel coronavirus, according to researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
These findings offer another view of the racial health disparities seen during the pandemic. Thus far, most investigations into COVID-19 racial health disparities have looked at the role of income, job type, residence in a multigenerational or crowded house, and other sociodemographic factors.
This latest data, published in partnership with researchers from the University of Hong Kong and City University Hong Kong, showed that environment and particularly the...
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