Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality

JM Aburto, AM Tilstra, G Floridi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic triggered global declines in life expectancy.
The United States was hit particularly hard among high-income countries. Early data from …

Do social determinants of health explain racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 infection?

H Lee, T Andrasfay, A Riley, Q Wu… - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Racial/ethnic minorities have experienced higher COVID-19 infection rates than whites, but
it is unclear how individual-level housing, occupational, behavioral, and socioeconomic …

[HTML][HTML] Life expectancy loss among Native Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Goldman, T Andrasfay - Demographic research, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND There has been little systematic research on the mortality impact of COVID-
19 in the Native American population. OBJECTIVE We provide estimates of loss of life …

COVID-19 and all-cause mortality by race, ethnicity, and age across five periods of the pandemic in the United States

AN Luck, IT Elo, SH Preston, E Paglino… - Population research and …, 2023 - Springer
Racial/ethnic and age disparities in COVID-19 and all-cause mortality during 2020 are well
documented, but less is known about their evolution over time. We examine changes in age …

Promoting informed decision-making in a primary care practice by implementing decision aids

CL Lewis, MP Pignone - North Carolina medical journal, 2009 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Empowering patients to be effective advocates for their health requires that they have
adequate information and understanding about their health conditions. Many patients have …

Life Expectancy Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019–2021: Highly Racialized Deaths in Young and Middle Adulthood in the United States as Compared …

RK Masters, LY Aron, SH Woolf - American journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We estimated changes in life expectancy between 2019 and 2021 in the United States (in
the total population and separately for 5 racial/ethnic groups) and 20 high-income peer …

Research note: COVID-19 is not an independent cause of death

MC Castro, S Gurzenda, CM Turra, S Kim… - …, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
The COVID-19 pandemic has had overwhelming global impacts with deleterious social,
economic, and health consequences. To assess the COVID-19 death toll, researchers have …

Prevention science and health equity: A comprehensive framework for preventing health inequities and disparities associated with race, ethnicity, and social class

A Biglan, RJ Prinz, D Fishbein - Prevention Science, 2023 - Springer
The ultimate goal of our public health system is to reduce the incidence of disability and
premature death. Evidence suggests that, by this standard, the USA falls behind most other …

Social determinants of remaining life expectancy at age 60: a district-level analysis in Germany

A Siegel, JF Schug, MA Rieger - International Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remaining life expectancy at age 60 (in short: RLE) is an important indicator of the health
status of a population's elders. Until now, RLE has not been thoroughly investigated at the …

The impact of health inequities on physicians' occupational well‐being during COVID‐19: A qualitative analysis from four US cities

A Browne, T Jenkins, N Berlinger… - Journal of hospital …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of this study is to describe frontline physicians' perceptions of the impact
of racial–ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID‐19 infection and mortality on their …