Komeiha Menna, Artyukh Iryna, Ogundele Oluwasegun J, Zhao Q Jane, Massaquoi Notisha, Straus Sharon, Razak Fahad, Hosseini Benita, Persaud Navindra, Mishra Sharmistha, Eissa Azza, Isabel Mathieu, Pinto Andrew D
Upstream Lab, MAP, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON M5B 1T8, Canada.
Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M6, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025 Jun 30;22(7):1054. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22071054.
The objective of this study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racialized communities and individuals in Canada.
This review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology and the PRISMA-ScR guidance on reporting scoping reviews. Ovid MEDLINE ALL, Embase Classic + Embase, CINAHL (Ebsco platform), PsycINFO, and Cochrane were searched for documents that were published after March 2020 and that reported on the social and economic impacts and health outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic on generally healthy racialized populations that reside in Canada.
A total of 39 documents were included in this review. Our results show racialized communities faced greater social, economic, and health impacts from the pandemic. These impacts were manifested in the form of high COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates, increased discrimination, worsening mental health, difficulty in accessing healthcare, and challenges related to accessing food and basic necessities.
Canadian racialized groups have been inequitably affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to pre-existing inequalities and emerging discrimination. Responsive policy action and robust pandemic preparedness efforts are indispensable in adopting a proactive stance to prevent racialized populations from bearing a disproportionate burden of negative health crises in the future. This necessitates addressing pre-existing disparities and targeting social and economic vulnerability areas. By doing so, we can mitigate the reported social, economic, and health impacts experienced by racialized groups, including challenges related to accessing basic necessities, deteriorating mental health, and barriers to healthcare access.
本研究的目的是考察新冠疫情对加拿大种族化社区和个人的影响。
本综述遵循乔安娜·布里格斯研究所（JBI）的方法以及系统综述和范围综述扩展版（PRISMA-ScR）关于报告范围综述的指南。在Ovid MEDLINE ALL、Embase Classic + Embase、CINAHL（Ebsco平台）、PsycINFO和Cochrane中检索2020年3月之后发表的、报告新冠疫情对居住在加拿大的一般健康种族化人群的社会经济影响和健康结果的文献。
本综述共纳入39篇文献。我们的结果表明，种族化社区在疫情中面临着更大的社会、经济和健康影响。这些影响表现为新冠发病率和死亡率高、歧视增加、心理健康恶化、获得医疗保健困难以及与获取食物和基本必需品相关的挑战。
由于先前存在的不平等和新出现的歧视，加拿大的种族化群体在新冠疫情中受到了不公平的影响。采取积极的政策行动和有力的疫情防范措施对于采取积极立场防止种族化人群在未来承受不成比例的负面健康危机负担至关重要。这需要解决先前存在的差距，并针对社会和经济脆弱领域。通过这样做，我们可以减轻种族化群体报告的社会、经济和健康影响，包括与获取基本必需品、心理健康恶化以及医疗保健获取障碍相关的挑战。
