La Dre Allison Crawford et Eva Serhal soutiennent que la mise en œuvre rapide d’innovations numériques en matière de soins de santé durant la pandémie de COVID-19 a entraîné des iniquités de santé, par exemple un manque d’accès et de compétences par rapport aux outils de santé numériques.
This journal article by da Silva et al. presents the findings from a study investigating the prevalence of COVID-19 testing, diagnosis, and vaccine acceptance among sexual and gender minority people in the United States.
These webinar series from Research Evaluation Data Ethics 4 Black Lives (REDE4 Black Lives) includes recorded discussions on race-based data collection and use at various points of the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes discussions on population health analytics, community health, data literacy, policing and artificial intelligence. The series highlights limitations, challenges and concerns around race-based data collection in public health pandemic planning and response.
This editorial from Shervington and Richardson describes the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 due to racial inequities and socioeconomic disadvantage in the city of New Orleans. The authors use insight gained from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to explore the mental health effects of disasters, contextualizing recommendations to address population mental health during both the immediate crisis response and recovery phases.
This report from the Decent Work and Health Network (DWHN) discusses paid sick day gaps during COVID-19. It presents evidence to support principles associated with effective paid sick day legislation, including universality, payment, adequacy, permanence and accessibility.
This journal article from Peek et al. makes recommendations to address COVID-19 disparities among African Americans based on principles of public health and bioethics.
In this webinar from the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre at Ryerson University, panelists discuss how age and ageism have factored in to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speakers discuss how we can foster resilience individually to support seniors to be actors in social change during pandemic recovery.
This event took place in English. Academic research is a well-cited source of evidence to inform public health action to address health equity. But valuable academic work on the social determinants of health comes from more than established scholars or graduate students: University undergraduate programs that include a focus on social determinants of health and
This report from the Royal Society of Canada offers a collection of stories about the impacts of COVID-19 on the health and wellness of Indigenous people in Canada. It humanizes the pandemic in a way that is meaningful to Indigenous communities and calls attention to the lack of Indigenous-specific COVID-19 data.
This event took place in English. Canadians’ COVID-19 vaccine confidence has improved over time, but significant inequities in vaccine uptake remain. Communities with the highest health and social burden of COVID-19 are also those with the lowest levels of vaccine access and uptake. This highlights the continuing impacts of the social and structural determinants of
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