Acknowledging Systemic Discrimination in the Context of a Pandemic: Advancing an Anti-Racist and Anti-Ageist Movement

Gonzales, Ernest; Gordon, Stacey; Whetung, Cliff; Connaught, Gerri; Collazo, Jasmin; Hinton, Jill

doi:10.1080/01634372.2020.1870604

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“…Integrating anti-oppressive frameworks in practice and understanding how the history of colonial ideologies manifest within the healthcare systems aligns with health equity aims. Further, practicing with an anti-racist (Bennett et al, 2021; Gonzales et al, 2021; Mukhtar, 2021) and culturally informed lens when supporting Black, Asian, Indigenous, and Latinx communities also aligns supports health equity (Gao & Liu, 2020).…”

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A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery

Ashcroft

Hussain

Lam

et al. 2023

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: The aim of this scoping review is to systematically scope the literature on social work, the COVID-19 pandemic, and health policy. The research question guiding the scoping review is: What are the policy issues emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic that are of importance for social workers working in health and mental health? Method: Scoping review methodology following Arksey and O’Malley's five-stage framework. Results: A final sample of 191 articles were included in the scoping review. The five themes identified are: (a) strengthening social work's capacity to address structural issues in practice, (b) gaps in social work education, (c) need for new and updated standards and guidelines, (d) need for professional clarity and professional supports, and (e) inadequate government response. Conclusions: By strengthening uptake of the policy-practice framework, social work practitioners concurrently address immediate client issues and address upstream factors perpetuating inequities emerging during the pandemic.

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A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery

Ashcroft

Hussain

Lam

et al. 2023

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…Essential workers were particularly vulnerable to infection. They were usually individuals with underlying health conditions or advanced age and the pandemic revealed their low levels of job control, job safety, and job security (Gonzales et al, 2021). Komin et al (2020) researched how informal sector (IS) workers, whose working environment was dirty, dangerous, and difficult, were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Responses to COVID-19 in Major Social Work Journals: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies, Comments, and Editorials

Cheung

2021

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: The main objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest studies on COVID-19related social work issues. Method: This systematic review aimed to collect, review, and synthesize all COVID-19related papers published in 43 major social work journals, a year after the first known case was reported. Results: The final sample ( n = 256) consisted of 85 research articles and 171 in other formats. All the studies involved a total of 46,195 research participants. The majority of papers (75.4%) could be accessed freely online. Service users including families, students, older adults, caregivers, refugees, patients, health care workers, etc. were either researched or discussed. Discussion: Gerontological social work was one of the fields that received ample attention. Papers published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work yielded the highest number of citations. Academics and social workers came up with innovative ways of practicing and researching during the pandemic.

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“…Gonzales et al [29] draw attention to important factors contributing to these inequities in the context of the pandemic: people of colour, when compared to their White peers, have fewer resources to help buffer the impacts of COVID-19. The central question of our research focuses on the potentially exacerbated effects of the pandemic on marginalized populations, specifically BIPOC individuals when compared to White older adults and LGBT individuals when compared to heterosexual older adults.…”

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Beyond Mortality: The Social and Health Impacts of COVID-19 among Older (55+) BIPOC and LGBT Respondents in a Canada-Wide Survey

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This study focused on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the marginalized populations—specifically Black and Indigenous people as well as People of Color (BIPOC) compared to White older adults and LGBT individuals compared to heterosexual older adults. Data were derived from our national online survey of Canadians aged 55+, conducted from 10 August to 10 October 2020. The survey explored the influence of COVID-19 on lifestyle changes, well-being, and planning for the future. Our sample comprised 4292 respondents. We compared sets of dichotomous variables with White vs. BIPOC, LGBT vs. heterosexual, and LGBT White vs. LGBT BIPOC respondents. Significantly more BIPOC than White individuals reported changes in accessing food (44.3% vs. 33.2%) and in family income (53.9% vs. 38.9%) and fewer reported feeling accepted and happy, and more felt isolated and judged. Significantly more LGBT than heterosexual respondents reported changes in routines and in accessing social support, medical and mental health care and more feeling depressed, lonely, anxious, and sad. More LGBT–BIPOC than LGBT–White respondents reported changes in access to food (66.7 vs. 30.6, p < 0.001); in family income (66.7 vs. 41.5, p < 0.005); and in access to mental health care (38.5 vs. 24.0, p < 0.05). The only difference in emotional response to COVID-19 was that more BIPOC–LGBT than White–LGBT respondents reported feeling judged (25.9 vs. 14.5, p < 0.05). These findings reflect a complex mix of the effects of marginalization upon BIPOC and LGBT older adults, revealing both hardship and hardiness and warranting further research.

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Acknowledging Systemic Discrimination in the Context of a Pandemic: Advancing an Anti-Racist and Anti-Ageist Movement

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery

A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery

Responses to COVID-19 in Major Social Work Journals: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies, Comments, and Editorials

Beyond Mortality: The Social and Health Impacts of COVID-19 among Older (55+) BIPOC and LGBT Respondents in a Canada-Wide Survey

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