While the pandemic has focused the world’s attention on how to prevent infectious disease, many of the lessons learned from COVID-19 prevention can also be applied to chronic disease prevention.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only increased risk factors for violence, but also simultaneously decreased resiliency for individuals as well as communities.
Many researchers may lack resources to guide them in conducting research that is equitable, inclusive and respectful of diverse Indigenous knowledge, ethics, practice and research sovereignty.
Black patients were 30% and Asian patients 49% more likely to die within 30 days of hospital admission compared to patients from white backgrounds of a similar age and baseline health.
Mistrust of the medical establishment, based on experience, is behind hesitancy.
As the country’s first ever African MP, and only the second refugee to win a seat, Ibrahim Omer is ideally placed to tackle the big problems facing immigrant communities.
While the focus has been on containing ‘hot spots’ of COVID-19 outbreaks, understanding why some areas have few or no cases could point the way to a staged reopening that starts with these areas.
There are repeated calls for agency to be run by Māori and focused on improving Māori health, but so far nothing has been done.
The health care inequities suffered by Black Americans today began centuries ago.
Not everyone has a job they can do from home. Mapping the patterns of occupations across Melbourne’s suburbs against COVID-19 cases strongly suggests why some parts of the city are more vulnerable.
COVID-19 has again demonstrated the health inequities that exist between African Americans and whites.
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Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Public Policy, UCL
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Chair Country Health Research and Innovation, Curtin University
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Dean of the Sol Price School of Public Policy; Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, Public Policy, and Economics, University of Southern California
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Joel Lexchin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Policy, Columbia University
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
