Inequities in the distribution of COVID-19: an adaptation of WHO's conceptual framework.

Gac Sanit

Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain.

Published: September 2022

AI Article Synopsis

  • The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted lower socioeconomic groups and minorities, highlighting significant health inequities that need to be addressed.
  • Public health officials and governments must understand these disparities to implement effective policies that mitigate the crisis.
  • This paper adapts the World Health Organization's framework on social determinants of health to examine the structural and intermediate factors that contribute to the uneven effects of COVID-19, including new elements like oppression systems and communication.

Article Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic currently affects populations worldwide. Although everyone is susceptible to the virus, there are numerous accounts of the pandemic having a greater impact on lower socioeconomic groups and minorities, which is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It is essential for public health administrations and governments to uncover and understanding these inequities to develop proper intersectoral policies to tackle this crisis. Therefore, developing a conceptual framework on this topic, describing the social mechanisms that explain the unjust distribution of the incidence and mortality of COVID-19, is a key task. The aim of this paper is to adapt the framework on social determinants of health from the World Health Organization to the specifics of COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, it identifies and explains the structural and intermediate determinants involved in this pandemic, and adds some new elements (such as the role of the oppression systems and communication) which may help to understand, and ultimately tackle, social inequities in COVID-19 distribution.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8526437PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2021.10.004DOI Listing

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