Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on BIPOC Communities

COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory illness that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and infected millions more in the United States. Unfortunately, Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities are over-represented in deaths and infections. Healthcare disparities are multifactorial, and dependent on a complex interplay of demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, genetic, and historical variables. This education was given to CRNAs to educate them on the different issues contributing to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on BIPOC communities. Healthcare workers who on the front lines of this pandemic are not routinely educated by employers of this social issue, which leads to a lack of education for their patients. A lack of knowledge of one's risk factors has negative effects on more a vulnerable part of the population attempting to mitigate exposure risk to COVID-19. In addition, these communities of color are shown to have decreased access to healthcare, overrepresentation in essential jobs, reduced ability to work from home which leads to the reduced ability to social distance.

Creator

• Walker II, Frederich L.

Language

• English

Palabra Clave

• Healthcare disparities
• COVID-19
• Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)
• Risk factors

Date created

• 2021

Resource type

• Research Paper

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/