ToxPoint: Health Disparities, COVID-19, and Owning Our Share
| العنوان: | ToxPoint: Health Disparities, COVID-19, and Owning Our Share |
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| المؤلفون: | Syril D. Pettit |
| المصدر: | Toxicological Sciences |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | AcademicSubjects/SCI01040, AcademicSubjects/MED00305, Health Equity, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, Mortality rate, Attendance, COVID-19, Root cause, medicine.disease, Toxicology, Obesity, Health equity, ToxPoint, Environmental health, Pandemic, Humans, Medicine, Healthcare Disparities, business, Socioeconomic status, health disparities |
| الوصف: | Growing evidence reveals that minority and low-income populations are experiencing disproportionate morbidity and mortality from COVID-19-sometimes with 2 or 3 times the mortality rate of their peers in the same age bracket. The interplay of preexisting and chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension (many of which themselves have complex genetic as well as environmental etiologies) along with socioeconomic factors such as high-density living conditions, jobs requiring on-site attendance, under/un-insured status, environmental exposures, and/or insufficient access to quality healthcare has created catastrophic outcomes for many populations. Although a mighty catalyst-COVID-19 is not the root cause of these inequitable distributions of health outcomes. The pandemic has simply reinforced an array of long-established systemic failings and spotlighted the reality that only isolated segments of the health and science community are actively engaged in protecting these populations. Toxicology-the science of safety-should be well positioned to help. But are we fulfilling this potential? |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1096-0929 1096-6080 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/toxsci/kfaa175 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::f84f472e2ff96e0586679a51492d554c |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....f84f472e2ff96e0586679a51492d554c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 10960929 10966080 |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/toxsci/kfaa175 |