Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for a Structurally Competent Health Care System

JAMA. 2020 Jul 21;324(3):231-232. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.9289.

Authors

Jonathan M Metzl¹, Aletha Maybank², Fernando De Maio^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
² Chief Health Equity Officer, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois.
³ Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois.
⁴ Department of Sociology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

PMID: 32496531
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.9289

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / mortality
Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration*
Ethnicity
Health Status Disparities
Healthcare Disparities*
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
Racial Groups
SARS-CoV-2
Socioeconomic Factors
United States / epidemiology