Beyond the case count: the wide-ranging disparities of COVID-19 in the United States
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Data brief
- Series Title(s):
- Survey brief (Commonwealth Fund)
- Author(s):
- Getachew, Yaphet, author Zephyrin, Laurie, author Abrams, Melinda K., author Shah, Arnov, author Lewis, Corrine, author Doty, Michelle M., author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Commonwealth Fund, September 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Coronavirus Infections -- economics Health Status Disparities Pandemics -- economics African Americans European Continental Ancestry Group Hispanic Americans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The COVID-19 pandemic's impact in the United States has exposed long-standing inequities by race, ethnicity, and income. A Commonwealth Fund analysis from April showed that confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths were disproportionately higher in communities with larger Black populations. Contributing to these poorer outcomes is the far greater likelihood Black and Latino Americans live in poverty and reside in neighborhoods with overcrowded households, air pollution, and inadequate access to health care. Beyond its toll on physical health, the pandemic has pushed the U.S. into an economic recession, which typically impacts already disadvantaged people more severely than the rest of society. As part of a series of Commonwealth Fund investigations into the disparate impacts of COVID-19, we analyzed the U.S. responses to the Fund's 2020 International Health Policy COVID-19 Supplement Survey, fielded in the U.S. and nine other countries from March 30 to May 25, 2020. The survey in the U.S. was conducted among a nationally representative sample of adults age 18 and older, including oversamples of adults who identified as Black and Latino. The analysis shows that Americans' experience of economic hardship, their mental health concerns, and their opinion of government leaders during the pandemic varied by race, gender, and income.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101773081 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101773081