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  • Language and health equity during COVID-19: Lessons and opportunities
    Racial and ethnic health inequities have been magnified during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Linguistic barriers are a recognized source of health inequities for ethnic minority communities whose health communication needs cannot be adequately met in the majority language. Emergency circumstances, such as respiratory distress and end-of-life care, carry elevated risk of…
    January 2020
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Communication
  • COVID-19 widens disparities for workers of color
    The coronavirus (COVID-19) is a massive threat to the safety of U.S. workers. Black, Indigenous, and other workers of color are particularly vulnerable, as they are overrepresented in jobs with high exposure rates, and structural racism has led to disproportionate rates of COVID-19 infection and death.COVID-19 will likely lead to a prolonged period of economic disparity and unemployment. This…
    January 2020
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Health equity: Permanent supportive housing with Housing First (Housing First programs)
    The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends permanent supportive housing with Housing First (Housing First programs) to promote health equity for people who are experiencing homelessness and have a disabling condition. Evidence shows Housing First programs decrease homelessness, increase housing stability, and improve quality of life for homeless persons living…
    June 2019
    HIV, Healthy Housing
  • SODIS method
    Water can be disinfected and in this way made drinkable using the rays of the sun. "Solar water disinfection" - SODIS for short - thus offers a solution for preventing diarrhoea, one of the most common causes of death among people in developing countries. (author introduction)
    May 2011
    Communicable Disease
  • Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to combat childhood diarrhoea in developing countries
    This report is a synthetic review of impact evaluations examining effectiveness of water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) interventions in reducing childhood diarrhoea. The results challenge the notion that water quality treatment in the household and hygiene interventions are necessarily the most efficacious and sustainable interventions for promoting reduction of diarrhoea. While point-of-use…
    August 2009
    Communicable Disease
  • Community based participatory research: A promising approach for increasing epidemiology's relevance in the 21st century
    Despite the advances of modern epidemiology, the field remains limited in its ability to explain why certain outcomes occur and to generate the kind of findings that can be translated into programs or policies to improve health. Creating community partnerships such that community representatives participate in the definition of the research problem, interpretation of the data, and application of…
    May 2004
    Chronic Disease, Communicable Disease, Environmental/Community Health
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