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Can evidence drive health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond?
Bell, Katy White, Sam Diaz, Abbey Bahria, Priya Sima, Fiona Al-Delaimy, Wael K. dosReis, Susan Hassan, Omar Drabarek, Dorothy Nisha, Monjura
Bell, Katy
White, Sam
Diaz, Abbey
Bahria, Priya
Sima, Fiona
Al-Delaimy, Wael K.
dosReis, Susan
Hassan, Omar
Drabarek, Dorothy
Nisha, Monjura
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2024-01-12
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Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00452-3
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Using scoping review methods, we systematically searched multiple online databases for publications in the first year of the pandemic that proposed pragmatic population or health system-level solutions to health inequities. We found 77 publications with proposed solutions to pandemic-related health inequities. Most were commentaries, letters, or editorials from the USA, offering untested solutions, and no robust evidence on effectiveness. Some of the proposed solutions could unintentionally exacerbate health inequities. We call on health policymakers to co-create, co-design, and co-produce equity-focussed, evidence-based interventions with communities, focussing on those most at risk to protect the population as a whole. Epidemiologists collaborating with people from other relevant disciplines may provide methodological expertise for these processes. As epidemiologists, we must interrogate our own methods to avoid propagating any unscientific biases we may hold. Epidemiology must be used to address, and never exacerbate, health inequities—in the pandemic and beyond.
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Bell, K., White, S., Diaz, A. et al. Can evidence drive health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond?. J Public Health Pol 45, 137–151 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00452-3
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Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 45, Iss. 1
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