1.COVID-19: Unmasking disparities and inequities in health
Philippine Journal of Nursing 2020;90(3):39-44
Health care should be borderless, and people must have liberty and timely access to health services regardless of color and status. Different cultures appear to interconnect the world but threaten conflict because of how public health policies are implemented. Considering the social determinants of health in public health policy is essential to halt the following disparities and inequities in this pandemic: (a) compromised right to education has been linked to poverty and without a regular income, disease conditions aggravate, even worse; (b) due to labor market segregation, people in color were losing jobs at a high rate than whites- these minorities have least to cope on health and economic fall-out of the pandemic; (c) racial residential segregation has forced minorities to live in unconducive substandard multifamily units; (d) due to food insufficiency related to joblessness, over 21,000 homeless people may need to be hospitalized; (e) Because of the wrong perceptions of the disease, the whites intently discriminate against the East Asian ethnicity for fear of contracting COVID-19; (f) social media has influenced the development and spread of health-related 'conspiracy' and people became resistant to public health policies; (g) telehealth is advantageous in population with excellent internet service but not for the homeless and those living in depressed areas; (h) urbanization has led to climate change, biodiversity loss, which arises in zoonotic transmission/diseases; (i) pollution was associated with a 15% increase in the COVID-19 death rate in California; and, (j) populations living in coldest areas are at risk of contracting COVID-19 virus. This study unveils racial inequities and disparities in COVID-19.
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2.The need to vaccinate against COVID-19.
Journal of Medicine University of Santo Tomas 2022;6(2):1051-1055
Globally, now in the third year of the pandemic,
COVID-19 deaths have exceeded more than 6
million. As new subvariants emerge and spread,
vaccines work to limit the worst of COVID-19 and
continue to be important. Restraints are lifted, and
COVID-19 may be seen as done for some, but
COVID-19 is not yet done with others, no matter
how badly everyone wants it to end. The SARS-
CoV-2 pandemic has caused considerable morbidity
and mortality worldwide. The protection provided
by vaccines and booster doses offer a method of
mitigating severe clinical outcomes and mortality. As
debates over additional booster shots for COVID-19
intensify, many researchers are looking to the
universal coronavirus vaccine model as a guide
for managing future variants of SARS-CoV-2 and
preempt the next COVID-19 surge.
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