Community-level factors associated with racial and ethnic disparities in covid-19 rates in Massachusetts

Health Affairs

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2020, Pages 1984-1992

  Figueroa, Jose F ^a   Wadhera, Rishi K ^b   Lee, Dennis ^a   Yeh, Robert W ^b   Sommers, Benjamin D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; ANCESTRY GROUP; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH DISPARITY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MINORITY GROUP; MORBIDITY; PANDEMIC; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; BETACORONAVIRUS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MORBIDITY; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 85095426325     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01040     Document Type: Article

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