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The Impact Of Covid-19 In The Latinx Community, Laura Pedraza, Ricardo Villela, Vikki Kamatgi, Kaitlyn Cocuzzo, Ricardo Correa, Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski
The Impact Of Covid-19 In The Latinx Community, Laura Pedraza, Ricardo Villela, Vikki Kamatgi, Kaitlyn Cocuzzo, Ricardo Correa, Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski
HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the existing health and social disparities that affect minority groups in the United States (US), including the Latinx community. This situation has been reflected in many aspects of health, including increased morbi-mortality and reduced adherence to medical and scientific recommendations. Limited access to health care, financial challenges, migrant status, and health literacy, or lack thereof, have all hampered the Latinx community's ability to seek aid quickly and to be tested or treated effectively for this disease. This pandemic has shown that the Latinx community's socioeconomic status correlates with greater mortality rates when compared to other …
An Obstetrics And Gynecology Residency Program’S Approach To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Tiffany C. Chang, Brenda Nguyen, Chi Dola
An Obstetrics And Gynecology Residency Program’S Approach To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Tiffany C. Chang, Brenda Nguyen, Chi Dola
HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine
Background: The impact of COVID-19 on residency training nationwide has been substantial, and adapting to this unprecedented event has proven challenging for program directors throughout the United States. Here, the authors presented their initial experiences with restructuring an obstetrics and gynecology residency program during the pandemic. The authors outlined their strategies to maximize resident safety and address clinical care in outpatient and inpatient settings, resident education curriculum, resident wellness and consider the ethical dilemmas of health care providers during a pandemic.
Conclusion: With perspectives from other residency programs, the authors hope this review will serve as an initial building block …
A Perspective On Research, Education, Practice And Policy In The Covid-19 Era, Julie A. Jacko
A Perspective On Research, Education, Practice And Policy In The Covid-19 Era, Julie A. Jacko
HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unleashed a global health crisis, precipitating massive efforts aimed at understanding, preventing, preparing for, treating and responding to the novel coronavirus domestically and internationally. Given the profound and ongoing impact of COVID-19, the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine organized this special issue of the journal as a mechanism for capturing groundbreaking studies, advances and perspectives that have the potential to shape health and health care for decades to come.