Social Determinants and COVID-19 in a Community Health Center Cohort

Ali, M Masoom; Gasca, Victoria; Schrier, Rachel; Pensa, Mellisa A.; Brockman, Anthony; Olson, Douglas P.; Oldfield, Benjamin J.

doi:10.1007/s10903-021-01320-6

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“…This was further exacerbated by a plethora of co-existing inequities evidenced during the pandemic phase of COVID-19. Importantly, many BIPOC experienced the higher burden of a lack of social determinants of health (Ali et al, 2022 ), namely a lack of access to quality education, housing instability, under- and unemployment, economic instability resulting from furloughs, employment in jobs that elevated viral exposure prior to the availability of vaccines, and higher rates of mortality due to lack of access to quality care (Neighbors et al, 2023 ; US Department of Health & Human Services, 2020 ). Despite increased stressors, BIPOC continued to experience structural barriers that precluded their mental health help-seeking efforts.…”

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Should We Trust You? Strategies to Improve Access to Mental Healthcare to BIPOC Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Waller

Giusto

Tepper

et al. 2023

Community Ment Health J

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Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities have weathered centuries of racism, causing transgenerational mental health consequences and hindering access to quality treatment. In this commentary, we describe the systemic challenges of engaging BIPOC to promote mental health equity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We then describe an initiative that illustrates these strategies, followed by recommendations for doing this work and further reading.

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Should We Trust You? Strategies to Improve Access to Mental Healthcare to BIPOC Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Waller

Giusto

Tepper

et al. 2023

Community Ment Health J

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“…Consequently, many free clinics, including the one described in this study, are unable to engage in research without developing academic partnerships or collaboration with existing research networks. Despite the recognized need for frequent reassessments of SDOH needs and correlations within clinics and local communities to tailor specific, populationcentered resources and interventions [15][16][17], the incentive for indepth scholarly investigation of uninsured adults at free clinics remains low.…”

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Social determinants of health correlations and resource usefulness at a Milwaukee free clinic for uninsured individuals: A cross-sectional study

Miller,

Doucas,

Karra

et al. 2024

J. Clin. Trans. Sci.

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Introduction: Addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) is fundamental to improving health outcomes. At a student-run free clinic, we developed a screening process to understand the SDOH needs and resource utilization of Milwaukee's uninsured population. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we screened adult patients without health insurance (N = 238) for nine traditional SDOH needs as well as their access to dental and mental health care between October 2021 and October 2022. Patients were surveyed at intervals greater than or equal to 30 days. We assessed correlations between SDOH needs and trends in patient-reported resource usefulness. Results: Access to dental care (64.7%) and health insurance (51.3%) were the most frequently endorsed needs. We found significant correlations (P ≤ 0.05) between various SDOH needs. Notably, mental health access needs significantly correlated with dental (r = 0.41; 95% CI = 0.19, 0.63), medications (r = 0.51; 95% CI = 0.30, 0.72), utilities (r = 0.39; 95% CI = 0.17, 0.61), and food insecurity (r = 0.42; 95% CI = 0.19, 0.64). Food-housing (r = 0.55; 95% CI = 0.32, 0.78), housing-medications (r = 0.58; 95% CI = 0.35, 0.81), and medicationsfood (r = 0.53; 95% CI = 0.32, 0.74) were significantly correlated with each other. Longitudinal assessment of patient-reported usefulness informed changes in the resources offered. Conclusions: Understanding prominent SDOH needs can inform resource offerings and interventions, addressing root causes that burden under-resourced patients. In this study, patient-reported data about resource usefulness prompted the curation of new resources and volunteer roles. This proof-of-concept study shows how longitudinally tracking SDOH needs at low-resource clinics can inform psychosocial resources.

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“…Social media use increased during the pandemic (Zhao and Zhou, 2021 ) owing to social distancing and quarantining of the individuals to prevent the spread of infection caused by COVID-19. Previous studies have been carried out on COVID-19 from different perspectives like digital learning during the emergence of COVID-19 virus (Hasan and Bao, 2020 ; Aditya, 2021 ; Chaturvedi et al, 2021 ; Deshpande and Mhatre, 2021 ; Smith et al, 2021 ), its impact on the economies of different countries (Hasan and Bao, 2020 ; Ye et al, 2020 ; Ali et al, 2021 ; Bhattacharya and Banerjee, 2021 ; Cuschieri and Grech, 2021 ; Delbiso et al, 2021 ; Donnarumma and Pezzulo, 2021 ; Klasche, 2021 ; Mahi et al, 2021 ; Prempeh, 2021 ; Roy et al, 2021 ), its role in the global health crisis (Abdalla et al, 2021 ; Ankrah et al, 2021 ; Chaturvedi et al, 2021 ; Chirisa et al, 2021 ; Donnarumma and Pezzulo, 2021 ; Hannam-Swain and Bailey, 2021 ; Klasche, 2021 ; Prempeh, 2021 ; Sarfraz et al, 2021 ; Wang et al, 2021 ; Zhao and Zhou, 2021 ) and the worst of all its impact on the mental wellbeing of people (Ciotti et al, 2020 ; Elmer et al, 2020 ; Filipova et al, 2020 ; Lee, 2020 ; Serafini et al, 2020 ; Adom et al, 2021 ; Chaturvedi et al, 2021 ; Coupet et al, 2021 ; Das and Bhattacharyya, 2021 ; Deshpande and Mhatre, 2021 ; Hannam-Swain and Bailey, 2021 ; Kareem, 2021 ; Li and Cao, 2021 ; Pandya and Lodha, 2021 ; Saha et al, 2021 ; Tonkin and Whitaker, 2021 ; Xiong et al, 2021 ). However, understanding the role of online social media use to meet the social needs after the closure of physical social interactive places amid COVID-19 is critical (Haman, 2020 ; Jogezai et al, 2021 ).…”

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Social Media Application as a New Paradigm for Business Communication: The Role of COVID-19 Knowledge, Social Distancing, and Preventive Attitudes

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Business firms and the public have encountered massive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has become the most significant challenge and influenced all communities. This research study focuses on exploring the relationship between COVID-19 knowledge, social distancing, individuals' attitudes toward social media use, and practices of using social media amid the COVID-19 crisis. This study examines how attitudes toward social media use mediate the linkage between COVID-19 knowledge, social distancing, and practices for social media use. This survey uses a non-probability convenience sampling approach to collect samples and recruit willing respondents with their consent for data collection. This study recorded the feedback from 348 participants who encountered the indirect/direct effects of nationwide lockdowns, restrictions on social gatherings, and COVID-19 infection. The findings validate the proposed hypotheses for their direct effects and indicate significant β-values, t-statistics, and the p-values at p <0.001. The results validate a relationship between the COVID-19 knowledge of and social distancing practices. Similarly, the results approved a positive link between social distancing and attitudes toward social media use amid COVID-19. The findings validate the relation between social distancing and attitudes toward social media use during COVID-19 challenges (β-value = 0.22 and t-statistics = 3.078). The results show the linkage between attitudes toward social media use and practices of using social media (β-value = 0.41, and t-statistics = 7.175). Individuals' attitude toward social media use during COVID-19 mediates the connection between COVID-19 knowledge and COVID-19 practices of using social media use. The results validate the first mediation at β-value = 0.21 and t-statistic = 5.327. Similarly, the findings approve that attitudes toward social media use in the pandemic have positively mediated the relation between distancing and practices for social media use amid the crisis of COVID-19 (β-value = 0.09 and t-statistic = 2.633). The findings indicate how people have been indulged in social media to pave their business communication needs. The results provide valuable insights for the global business community. This study provides a systematic and holistic research model that helps in exploring the consequences of COVID-19. The generalizability of the findings provides valuable directions for future research related to the current pandemic.

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Social Determinants and COVID-19 in a Community Health Center Cohort

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Should We Trust You? Strategies to Improve Access to Mental Healthcare to BIPOC Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Should We Trust You? Strategies to Improve Access to Mental Healthcare to BIPOC Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social determinants of health correlations and resource usefulness at a Milwaukee free clinic for uninsured individuals: A cross-sectional study

Social Media Application as a New Paradigm for Business Communication: The Role of COVID-19 Knowledge, Social Distancing, and Preventive Attitudes

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