COVID-19 among the Pakistani immigrant population in Northern Europe––Incidence and possible causes for infection

Goth, Ursula S.; Lyshol, Heidi; Braaum, Lars Erik; Sørensen, Anette Østbø; Skjerve, Hilde

doi:10.1016/j.jmh.2022.100138

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“…In contrast, investigations in Scandinavia found that Pakistani immigrants who face high levels of prejudice have a substantially greater prevalence of COVID‐19 (i.e., up to eight times greater than native‐born Norwegians). Predictors of infection rates among Pakistani individuals indicate that crowded housing, but not customer‐facing employment, plays a significant role in excess infections in this group (Goth et al., 2022). Identifying similarities and differences across populations in manifestations of structural racism and its effects on social determinants of health is a potential avenue for building more generalizable models and for designing more effective interventions.…”

Section: Cultural and Institutional Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural racism and health in the age of COVID‐19: A selective review with policy implications

Brondolo

Kaur

Flores

2023

Social Issues Policy Review

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Structural racism encompasses the effects of racial bias across all systems of society. A growing body of data indicates that structural racism contributes to racial inequities in health across the lifespan. Investigators have documented associations of different dimensions of structural racism, including cultural and institutional discrimination, to health. To clarify and integrate the scope of these data, we examine a broad array of manifestations of both cultural and institutional racism and review their associations to specific health effects outcomes. We examine effects on COVID-19 prevalence and mortality, but also investigate data on birth outcomes and premature mortality to gain insight into health effects at each end of the lifespan. Given the pervasive and well-documented history of racism facing Black Americans, we focus this review on the effects of structural racism on the health of Black populations in the United States. To examine the association of cultural discrimination to health, we review studies of prejudicial communications assessed with measures of area-level prejudice, leader communications of prejudice, and reactions to race-related cultural events. To examine the association of institutional discrimination to health, we examine laws and institutional policies that discriminated against Black Americans and shaped social and physical environments characterized by residential racial segregation and disadvantage, occupational segregation, and restricted voting rights, among other manifestations of inequity. As we document, research has demonstrated associations of cultural racism to birth outcomes and mortality, data are lacking on direct relations to COVID-19 mortality. Institutional discrimination has

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Section: Cultural and Institutional Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%