D Reed Darius
Department of Social Work, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion.
School of Social Work, Walden University.
Soc Work Public Health. 2021 Feb 17;36(2):118-127. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2020.1868371. Epub 2020 Dec 28.
The COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe in January of 2020 causing mass panic and extreme hysteria. While pandemics are not new, COVID-19 is emerging as a public health crisis in nearly every household in America. In this paper, I discuss how COVID-19 has ravaged one of the wealthiest African American counties in the United States. Using Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCR) I seek to examine how disparities exist in health care and public funding is not equally distributed regardless of wealth and status for minoritized communities. Using PCHR's framework I highlight many of the disparities that exist in health care for people of color during this global health crisis and provide implications for improvement in federal, state, and local funding in communities of color. This article advances scholarship on the intersection between public health and social work particularly alluding to the need for increased advocacy for marginalized communities.
2020年1月，新冠疫情席卷全球，引发了大规模恐慌和极度 hysteria。虽然疫情并非新鲜事，但新冠疫情正成为美国几乎每个家庭面临的公共卫生危机。在本文中，我将探讨新冠疫情如何肆虐了美国最富裕的非裔美国人县之一。运用公共卫生批判种族实践（PHCR），我试图研究医疗保健方面的差距是如何存在的，以及公共资金如何不论少数族裔社区的财富和地位而未能平等分配。运用PCHR的框架，我强调了在这场全球卫生危机期间有色人种在医疗保健方面存在的许多差距，并提出了改善联邦、州和地方对有色人种社区资金投入的建议。本文推进了关于公共卫生与社会工作交叉领域的学术研究，尤其暗示了加强对边缘化社区宣传倡导的必要性。
