Do social determinants of health explain racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 infection?

H Lee, T Andrasfay, A Riley, Q Wu… - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Racial/ethnic minorities have experienced higher COVID-19 infection rates than whites, but
it is unclear how individual-level housing, occupational, behavioral, and socioeconomic …

Diagnosing, managing, and studying long-COVID syndromes in children and adolescents in rural and underserved populations

J Snowden, K Weakley - Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has arguably had its greatest impact in rural and other historically
hard-to-reach populations. Families in rural and underserved communities experienced …

Body composition in community-dwelling older adults before and after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a longitudinal prospective study in a rural village struck by the pandemic

OH Del Brutto, RM Mera, DA Rumbea… - Journal of Primary …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Information on the body composition of inhabitants of remote communities
during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is limited. Using a longitudinal population-based study …

Using GeoAI to examine infectious diseases spread in a hyperdense city: A case study of the 2022 Hong Kong COVID-19 Omicron wave

KC Tang, C Shi, K Koh - Cities, 2025 - Elsevier
This study utilizes self-organizing maps (SOMs) to investigate the spatiotemporal diffusion
patterns and clusters of the 2022 COVID-19 Omicron variant in Hong Kong, incorporating …

Relationship between health literacy and COVID-19 knowledge: A cross-sectional study

Z Tao, Q Xu, Y Zhu, Q Mei, H Feng, Q Jin… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Health literacy (HL) is a protective factor for some chronic diseases. However,
its role in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has not been clarified. This …

Disparities in COVID-19 related health literacy, knowledge, and the assessment of the measures taken in Germany: a cross-sectional study

L Schmidt, NA Götz, N Hannemann, B Babitsch - Journal of Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Aim Health literacy is necessary to access, understand, assess, and apply information on
COVID-19. Studies have shown that health literacy is unequally distributed across social …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the Knowledge of and Behavior Toward COVID-19 and the Possibility of Isolating at a City Level: Survey Study

E Verot, R Chaux, J Gagnaire… - JMIR Public Health …, 2024 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background Mass testing campaigns were proposed in France during the first wave of the
COVID-19 pandemic to detect and isolate asymptomatic individuals infected by SARS-CoV …

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in a small rural southern state: Results of a weighted random sample survey

ML Williams, JP Selig, BC Amick III, J Li, DE Willis… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Objective COVID-19 remains a significant health threat to the United States (US) and the
world even after the development of effective vaccines. Throughout the pandemic, rural …

Repeatable enhancement of healthcare data with social determinants of health

ML Greer, CE Zayas, S Bhattacharyya - Frontiers in big Data, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Social and behavioral aspects of our lives significantly impact our health, yet
minimal social determinants of health (SDOH) data elements are collected in the healthcare …

Understanding COVID: Collaborative Government Campaign for Citizen Digital Health Literacy in the COVID-19 Pandemic

M López-Ventoso, M Pisano González… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
The strategy “Understanding COVID” was a Public Health campaign designed in 2020 and
launched in 2021 in Asturias-Spain to provide reliable and comprehensive information …