Deepening regional disparities in primary health care during COVID ...

This study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary healthcare accessibility in South Korea, beyond infectious disease control.

Deeping regional disparities in primary healthcare during COVID-19 ...

The regional disparity in primary healthcare between metropolis cities and SMRs has worsened during the pandemic. The deepening regional ...

RRH: Rural and Remote Health. Published article number: 8612 - Deepening regional disparities in primary health care during COVID-19 in ...

Deepening regional disparities in primary health care during COVID ...

Our descriptive analysis found that the supply of primary healthcare per capita by the private sector decreased in all regions in 2020, at the beginning of the ...

Regional inequalities in excess mortality and its community ...

Economic status or the number of medical centres in the community did not correlate with excess mortality rates. The risk was higher in ageing, ...

Emerging Health Disparities during the COVID-19 Pandemic - PMC

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has underscored social and racial discrimination in global health, showing that health equity is still a goal ...

COVID-19 and Unique Challenges in Rural Communities - IDSA

While many health inequities are historically well documented, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a deeper conversation, ultimately challenging ...

COVID-19 and health inequalities: The impact of social determinants ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to increased poverty rates among children, exacerbating existing inequalities [18]. While digitalization has played a ...

Lost in directory: How bad data deepens rural health disparities

In principle, this approach presents an efficient means to provide rural patients with access to specialty care, eliminating the need for ...

Inequalities in the pandemic - Scholars at Harvard

Regional inequalities in health impacts and the consequences of remote work. Poorer regions have experienced higher COVID-19-related mortality during the pan-.

Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives

This includes the loss of health insurance, jobs and homes, which increases risk for mental and physical morbidity and all-cause mortality.

How COVID has deepened inequality — in six stark graphics - Nature

In addition to causing economic shocks, COVID-19 has had unequal effects on people's health. Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

COVID-19 mortality and deprivation: pandemic, syndemic, and ...

COVID-19 has exacerbated endemic health inequalities resulting in a syndemic pandemic of higher mortality and morbidity rates among the most socially ...

Conflict, COVID-19, climate and economic crises deepen ... - UNICEF

The disparities in healthcare for children are vast. Although the Europe and Central Asia includes countries with the lowest number of infant ...

The Magnitude and Scope of Inequalities Created and Exacerbated ...

The weaknesses of public health and education systems had exacerbated societies' vulnerability to COVID-19 and had aggravated inequalities. This ...

Covid-19 — Implications for the Health Care System

The Crises and Their Origins · Insurance Coverage · Deep Financial Losses for Providers · Substantial Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Health ...

Social and Spatial Inequalities during COVID-19 - MDPI

In the 25 most affected departments, this pattern shifts, with a weaker correlation between density and deaths (R = 0.644) compared to density/infections (R = ...

COVID-19, Inequalities and Building Back Better

of inequality into a system that can fulfil basic social and economic rights for all. ... Create quality health care jobs, with a particular focus on primary ...

Points on Care: COVID-19 and Chronic Disease Deepen Health ...

Many of these same neighborhoods also have poor access to primary care. However, need for primary care is expected to increase significantly ...

Universal health coverage (UHC) - World Health Organization (WHO)

Most (90%) of essential UHC interventions can be delivered through a PHC approach, potentially saving 60 million lives and increasing average ...