How social determinants of health influences emerging COVID-19 hot spots

DOTmed April 24, 2020
Dr. Victor Collymore and David Hom

One of the keys to mitigating the effects and stopping the spread of a devastating disease such as COVID-19 is understanding which populations are most vulnerable and at-risk from exposure. Once those populations have been identified, healthcare professionals, governments and other organizations can direct their limited resources to where they are most needed – and will be most effective.

In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, we understood almost from the beginning that the highest-risk populations were those with one or more pre-existing conditions – especially conditions that affected the lungs, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or the heart such as heart disease and chronic heart failure (CHF). Yet there is another, almost hidden population that is also...

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