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    COVID-19 and vulnerable populations

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    2022-04-29
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    Lewis, Rhonda K.
    Martin, Pamela P.
    Guzman, Bianca L.
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    Lewis, R. K., Martin, P. P., & Guzman, B. L. (2022). COVID-19 and Vulnerable Populations. Journal of Community Psychology, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22880
    Abstract
    At the time of this special issue, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the leading cause of death in the United States and has contributed to millions of deaths worldwide. The world had no idea how the pandemic was going to impact our lives. COVID-19 exposed the inequities in our world and the individuals that were most impacted by it: vulnerable populations. Vulnerable populations may be defined as those living in poverty, living with disability, and racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minorities. Additionally, as community psychologists we understand that the impact of inequities do not appear singlehandedly since as human beings we do not exist in a vacuum and there are multiple factors that create our level of health and well-being. Therefore, the idea of examining COVID-19 in a syndemic framework allows us to explore how a synergistic epidemic (i.e., the aggregation of two or more concurrent or sequential epidemics or disease clusters in a population with biological interactions) exacerbates the prognosis and burden of disease, which can impact vulnerable populations simultaneously. The main goal of this special issue concentrates on how COVID-19 had a synergistic impact on vulnerable populations and how these populations reacted and coped with these events.
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    https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/23352
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