Soon after its emergence, COVID-19 became a global problem. While different types of
vaccines and treatments are now available, still non-pharmacological policies play a critical …

Background: Increasing clinical evidence suggests that people with severe mental illness
(SMI), including schizophrenia spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder (BD), and major …

Background Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is associated with
increased insurance coverage among patients with cancer. Whether these gains translate to …

Density has gained considerable attention in policy and scientific discourses since the
emergence of COVID-19. In the early days, density was blamed as a negative factor that …

Early COVID-19 pandemic data suggested racial/ethnic minority and low-income earning
people bore the greatest burden of infection. Structural racism, the reinforcement of racial …

Introduction Although disparities in COVID-19 mortality have been documented at the
national and state levels, no previous study has quantified such disparities at the county …

This collection of articles in Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) brings together scientists
and practitioners from the breadth of public health and the social sciences to demonstrate …

Early data from the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that the disease has had a
disproportionate impact on communities of color with higher infection and mortality rates …

Background Vaccination reduces the overall burden of COVID-19, while its allocation
procedure may introduce additional health inequality, since populations characterized with …

Objective: To examine the association between county-level Black-White residential
segregation and COVID-19 vaccination rates. Design: Observational cross-sectional study …