Coronavirus Health Inequities in the United States Highlight Need for Continued Community Development Efforts

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2020-07-01
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The coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic of 2020 has shown a spotlight on inequity in the USA. Although these inequities have long existed, the coronavirus and its disparate impact on health in different communities have raised the visibility of these deeply ingrained inequities to a level that has created a new awareness across the US population and an opportunity to use this heightened awareness of the existing conditions for change. ‘Community and social development’ efforts in the post-pandemic USA can be informed by a health justice framework, across economic, societal and cultural, environmental and social dimensions. Dimensions which have all been implicated in the coronavirus response and complement other social and community development models. Although health disparities and inequities did not begin with coronavirus and will not end in the post-pandemic USA, social and community development efforts which value health justice and concentrate on social determinants of health can provide needed policies and programmes for a more equitable US health system.

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Walter-McCabe, H. A. (2020). Coronavirus Health Inequities in the United States Highlight Need for Continued Community Development Efforts. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 2(2), 211–233. https://doi.org/10.1177/2516602620938353
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