Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Title: Prevalence of Self-Reported Hypertension and Antihypertensive Medication Use by County and Rural-Urban Classification
Date: May 8, 2020
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6918a1.htm?s_cid=mm6918a1_w
Brief Description: According to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the prevalence of hypertension increases with age and is higher among men and/or non-Hispanic blacks. Overall, the prevalence of hypertension has been consistently higher in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Future Implications: The CDC is working with states to improve hypertension treatment and control through team-based care interventions that include the increased use of telemedicine.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where long-term medical conditions such as high blood pressure are more common in non-Hispanic blacks, especially those living in rural or urban areas. If the increased use of telemedicine can lead to the improvement of hypertension treatment, it can lead to the reduction of health disparities when it comes to the prevalence of hypertension in the United States.
Timeliness (0-5): 2
Scope (0-5): 3
Impact (0-5): 3
Likelihood (0-5): 3
Urgency (0-5): 4
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Health Disparities
Source: USNews
Title: Why are Blacks, Other Minorities Hardest Hit by COVID-19?
Date: May 06, 2020
Link: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-05-06/why-are-blacks-other-minorities-hardest-hit-by-covid-19
Brief Description: Looking at the numbers, the new coronavirus is disproportionately striking minority populations --- specifically urban black communities. In New York, the epicenter of the virus, black people make up only 18% of the state's population but also make up 33% of COVID-19 hospitalizations. In New Mexico, Native Americans make up only 5% of the state's population yet they represent 20% of the state's COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Future Implications: Antibody testing will become more accessible for everyone, meaning being implemented in more areas and costing little to none for those who cannot afford to pay a fee. Also, passing policies that protect minorities and people with low-income.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where decades of disparities in education, housing, jobs and stress levels have contributed to an excess risk of chronic disease based on race, ethnicity and income. With the current pandemic going on, these issues have been recognized and highlighted more than ever. Many states are showing similar patterns of health disparities and income plays a large part alongside racial differences. If policies are passed that protect minorities and people with low-income, illness in high-risk communities can soon be prevented.
Timeliness (0-5): 5
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 4
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Title: Why are Blacks, Other Minorities Hardest Hit by COVID-19?
Date: May 06, 2020
Link: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-05-06/why-are-blacks-other-minorities-hardest-hit-by-covid-19
Brief Description: Looking at the numbers, the new coronavirus is disproportionately striking minority populations --- specifically urban black communities. In New York, the epicenter of the virus, black people make up only 18% of the state's population but also make up 33% of COVID-19 hospitalizations. In New Mexico, Native Americans make up only 5% of the state's population yet they represent 20% of the state's COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Future Implications: Antibody testing will become more accessible for everyone, meaning being implemented in more areas and costing little to none for those who cannot afford to pay a fee. Also, passing policies that protect minorities and people with low-income.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where decades of disparities in education, housing, jobs and stress levels have contributed to an excess risk of chronic disease based on race, ethnicity and income. With the current pandemic going on, these issues have been recognized and highlighted more than ever. Many states are showing similar patterns of health disparities and income plays a large part alongside racial differences. If policies are passed that protect minorities and people with low-income, illness in high-risk communities can soon be prevented.
Timeliness (0-5): 5
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 4
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Health Disparities
Source: HealthITAnalytics
Title: Leveraging COVID-19 Data to Eliminate Healthcare Disparities
Date: May 7, 2020
Link: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/leveraging-covid-19-data-to-eliminate-healthcare-disparities
Brief Description: COVID-19 data that has been collected during the pandemic has shed light on significant healthcare disparities, revealing poorer outcomes in minority and undeserved communities. This data gathered can help leaders reduce these disparities.
Future Implications: Reporting and analyzing this data gives state leaders a better insight into how to meet the needs of certain communities in order to help eliminate disparities.
Overall Impact: As the virus continues to disproportionately impact black and Hispanic populations in the United States, the data gathered on this issue is very useful in reducing disparities. The implementation of more testing sites and healthcare facilities in undeserved populations has led to the recognition of these disparities and can only go forward from now on to help eliminate them.
Timeliness (0-5): 3
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 4
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Title: Leveraging COVID-19 Data to Eliminate Healthcare Disparities
Date: May 7, 2020
Link: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/leveraging-covid-19-data-to-eliminate-healthcare-disparities
Brief Description: COVID-19 data that has been collected during the pandemic has shed light on significant healthcare disparities, revealing poorer outcomes in minority and undeserved communities. This data gathered can help leaders reduce these disparities.
Future Implications: Reporting and analyzing this data gives state leaders a better insight into how to meet the needs of certain communities in order to help eliminate disparities.
Overall Impact: As the virus continues to disproportionately impact black and Hispanic populations in the United States, the data gathered on this issue is very useful in reducing disparities. The implementation of more testing sites and healthcare facilities in undeserved populations has led to the recognition of these disparities and can only go forward from now on to help eliminate them.
Timeliness (0-5): 3
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 4
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Friday, May 1, 2020
Health Disparities
Source: HealthITAnalytics
Title: County-Level Data Shows Racial, Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Cases
Date: April 27, 2020
Link: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/county-level-data-shows-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-cases
Brief Description: Data that has been collected at the county-level shows that COVID-19 is more prevalent among black and Hispanic populations, revealing significant racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. By April 21, high-concentration black communities saw 422,184 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 27,354 deaths, in contrast to 378,667 cases and 16,203 deaths in low-concentration black counties.
Future Implications: The data that's being released by public health organizations needs to be more consistent and transparent on the impact of coronavirus among communities of color. Only then will federal and local governments be able to ensure resources for testing, treatment recovery are targeted to communities of people most affected by the pandemic.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where black and Hispanic's health are being affected at a disproportionate rate. Although the CDC has begun releasing national data on race and ethnicity, about two-thirds of the cases reported failed to specify the race of the individual. Without the data being reported in a more transparent matter, it will be harder to ensure the right communities are given proper resources in an effort to reduce these disproportionate disparities.
Timeliness (0-5): 4
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 4
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Title: County-Level Data Shows Racial, Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Cases
Date: April 27, 2020
Link: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/county-level-data-shows-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-cases
Brief Description: Data that has been collected at the county-level shows that COVID-19 is more prevalent among black and Hispanic populations, revealing significant racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. By April 21, high-concentration black communities saw 422,184 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 27,354 deaths, in contrast to 378,667 cases and 16,203 deaths in low-concentration black counties.
Future Implications: The data that's being released by public health organizations needs to be more consistent and transparent on the impact of coronavirus among communities of color. Only then will federal and local governments be able to ensure resources for testing, treatment recovery are targeted to communities of people most affected by the pandemic.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where black and Hispanic's health are being affected at a disproportionate rate. Although the CDC has begun releasing national data on race and ethnicity, about two-thirds of the cases reported failed to specify the race of the individual. Without the data being reported in a more transparent matter, it will be harder to ensure the right communities are given proper resources in an effort to reduce these disproportionate disparities.
Timeliness (0-5): 4
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 4
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Health Disparities
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Title: Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019
Date: April 17, 2020
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm?s_cid=mm6915e3_w
Brief Description: CDC has released their weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report in regards to hospitalization rates based on patients' demographics. It can be seen that even though 45% of COVID-19 hospitalized patients are white, non-hispanic black people are at 33% which is a disproportionate rate given their lower overall population within the United States.
Future Implications: Ongoing monitoring of hospitalization rates is critical to understanding the evolving epidemiology of COVID-19 in the United States and to guide planning and prioritization of health care resources.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where the patients who are most affected by COVID-19 share common underlying conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease and more. These underlying conditions tend to be most prevalent among African-Americans hence why the virus has a bigger impact on them. The best way for this unfortunate disparity to be dealt with is for public health officials and medical workers to pay attention to these trends in order to give these vulnerable patients the appropriate care they need.
Timeliness (0-5): 5
Scope (0-5): 5
Impact (0-5): 5
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Title: Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019
Date: April 17, 2020
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm?s_cid=mm6915e3_w
Brief Description: CDC has released their weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report in regards to hospitalization rates based on patients' demographics. It can be seen that even though 45% of COVID-19 hospitalized patients are white, non-hispanic black people are at 33% which is a disproportionate rate given their lower overall population within the United States.
Future Implications: Ongoing monitoring of hospitalization rates is critical to understanding the evolving epidemiology of COVID-19 in the United States and to guide planning and prioritization of health care resources.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where the patients who are most affected by COVID-19 share common underlying conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease and more. These underlying conditions tend to be most prevalent among African-Americans hence why the virus has a bigger impact on them. The best way for this unfortunate disparity to be dealt with is for public health officials and medical workers to pay attention to these trends in order to give these vulnerable patients the appropriate care they need.
Timeliness (0-5): 5
Scope (0-5): 5
Impact (0-5): 5
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Health Disparities
Source: US News
Title: COVID-19 Exposing Ongoing Health Disparities
Date: April 20, 2020
Link: https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-04-20/its-no-surprise-coronavirus-is-hitting-african-americans-harder
Brief Description: The coronavirus' impact on African-Americans requires the nation to address an ongoing problem for communities in the United States. It's made the issue of disparities in potentially deadly conditions based on people's race and ethnicity clearer, however it's an issue in our health care system that we have been facing for many years.
Future Implications: Community organizations & partnerships will raise greater awareness of COVID-19 symptoms and access to testing, improving access to necessary care for African-Americans.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where throughout history, African-Americans have always faced challenges related to socioeconomic status, education and access to health care. These things directly impact their overall health and life expectancy and the current pandemic heightens the impact of these social determinants of health.
Timeliness (0-5): 5
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 5
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Title: COVID-19 Exposing Ongoing Health Disparities
Date: April 20, 2020
Link: https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-04-20/its-no-surprise-coronavirus-is-hitting-african-americans-harder
Brief Description: The coronavirus' impact on African-Americans requires the nation to address an ongoing problem for communities in the United States. It's made the issue of disparities in potentially deadly conditions based on people's race and ethnicity clearer, however it's an issue in our health care system that we have been facing for many years.
Future Implications: Community organizations & partnerships will raise greater awareness of COVID-19 symptoms and access to testing, improving access to necessary care for African-Americans.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where throughout history, African-Americans have always faced challenges related to socioeconomic status, education and access to health care. These things directly impact their overall health and life expectancy and the current pandemic heightens the impact of these social determinants of health.
Timeliness (0-5): 5
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 5
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5
Friday, April 17, 2020
Health Disparities
Source: HealthITAnalytics
Title: Race Data for COVID-19 Patients Key to Assess Health Disparities
Date: April 14, 2020
Link: https://patientengagementhit.com/news/race-data-for-covid-19-patients-key-to-assess-health-disparities
Brief Description: In order to understand the social determinants of health that are impacting the spread of coronavirus and address health disparities, the Trump Administration is being called on by leading physician groups to collect racial and socio-demographic data about COVID-19 patients.
Future Implications: The data collected will help health care providers better target and increase care access options based on unique social needs of their populations.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where the impact of disease varies on the demographics of populations. Due to this, health care options should be varied based on which populations are more vulnerable to illness than the others. These efforts currently being made by medical providers to analyze this type of data during the pandemic may encourage the elimination of health disparities within our nation.
Timeliness: 4
Impact: 4
Scope: 4
Likelihood: 3
Urgency: 5
Title: Race Data for COVID-19 Patients Key to Assess Health Disparities
Date: April 14, 2020
Link: https://patientengagementhit.com/news/race-data-for-covid-19-patients-key-to-assess-health-disparities
Brief Description: In order to understand the social determinants of health that are impacting the spread of coronavirus and address health disparities, the Trump Administration is being called on by leading physician groups to collect racial and socio-demographic data about COVID-19 patients.
Future Implications: The data collected will help health care providers better target and increase care access options based on unique social needs of their populations.
Overall Impact: This trend confirms the baseline scenario where the impact of disease varies on the demographics of populations. Due to this, health care options should be varied based on which populations are more vulnerable to illness than the others. These efforts currently being made by medical providers to analyze this type of data during the pandemic may encourage the elimination of health disparities within our nation.
Timeliness: 4
Impact: 4
Scope: 4
Likelihood: 3
Urgency: 5
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