Dharva, Parth (2024) Assessing the disparities in COVID-19 outcomes among different socioeconomic and demographic groups and implications for public health policy. Masters thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted present disparities in health effects amongst diverse socioeconomic and demographic groups, revealing full-size inequities in access to healthcare, exposure to the virus, and typical fitness outcomes. This research ambitions to research these disparities, specializing in decrease-income households and the white ethnic institution, to apprehend how the intersection of socioeconomic repute and ethnicity impacts health consequences. A systematic literature evaluate became performed to discover the impact of things along with healthcare access, housing conditions, employment instability, and pre-current fitness conditions on COVID-19 consequences. The observe analyzed more than a few research that supplied data at the experiences of decrease-earnings organizations and precise demographic segments, which includes the white ethnic group. The findings indicate that decrease-earnings companies and certain demographic segments face precise challenges that heighten their vulnerability to the virus. Limited access to healthcare, overcrowded residing situations, insufficient nutrients, and precarious employment had been discovered to exacerbate those demanding situations. Critical gaps in current research have been recognized, specifically regarding the intersectionality of socioeconomic repute and ethnicity. The research concludes that addressing those disparities requires a comprehensive method, along with equitable get admission to to healthcare, improved residing conditions, and socioeconomic guide. It emphasizes the significance of coverage interventions tailor-made to the particular desires of diverse populations to make sure equitable fitness consequences.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19, health disparities, socioeconomic reputation, ethnicity, public health policy, healthcare get entry to, systematic literature evaluation. |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | Theses and Dissertations > Masters Dissertations |
| Depositing User: | Victoria Hankinson |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2025 11:05 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2025 11:05 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/3301 |
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