Patient Engagement January 7, 2021
The data reaffirmed that social determinants of health disproportionately affect Black people, leading to COVID-19’s racial health disparities.
A new study out of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School adds to the evidence that institutional racism and adverse social determinants of health are key drivers of COVID-19 racial health disparities.
The data, presented in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, demonstrated that adverse social determinants of health are the strongest predictor of high COVID-19 mortality rates on the county level.
Racial health disparities have become a critical issue related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the early stages of the pandemic, anecdotal evidence revealed that Black and Brown patients were disproportionately contracting and dying from the virus.
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