Inequity and the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color in the United States: The Need for a Trauma-Informed Social Justice Response

Lisa R. Fortuna; Marina Tolou-Shams; Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy; Michelle V. Porche

doi:10.1037/tra0000889

Inequity and the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color in the United States: The Need for a Trauma-Informed Social Justice Response

Lisa R. Fortuna, Marina Tolou-Shams, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, Michelle V. Porche

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Abstract

COVID-19 has had disproportionate contagion and fatality in Black, Latino, and Native American communities and among the poor in the United States. Toxic stress resulting from racial and social inequities have been magnified during the pandemic, with implications for poor physical and mental health and socioeconomic outcomes. It is imperative that our country focus and invest in addressing health inequities and work across sectors to build self-efficacy and long-term capacity within communities and systems of care serving the most disenfranchised, now and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000889
State	Accepted/In press - 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

COVID-19
Communities of color
Health inequities
Systems of care
Toxic stress

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Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology

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Inequity and the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color in the United States: The Need for a Trauma-Informed Social Justice Response

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