Precision Public Health and Structural Racism in the United States: Promoting Health Equity in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response

• DOI: 10.2196/33277
• Publication Date: 2022-01-28T21:06:18Z
• Authors: Lester Darryl Gen...; Andrea Martani; Tenzin Wangmo; Bernice Simone Elger
• Keywords: Pandemic; Equity

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed deeply entrenched structural inequalities that resulted in an excess of mortality and morbidity certain racial ethnic groups the United States. Therefore, this paper examines from US perspective how racism defective data collection on minorities can negatively influence development precision public health (PPH) approaches to tackle ongoing pandemic. Importantly, effects fair inclusive data-driven components PPH interventions are discussed, such as with use machine learning algorithms predict risks. objective viewpoint is thus inform policymaking regard ethically sound against COVID-19. Particular attention given (eg, hospital segregation, implicit organizational bias, digital divide, sociopolitical influences) likely hinder achieving their social justice equity goals.