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This article reviews systemic factors affecting low income immigrant communities during COVID-19 and provides recommendations strategies to improve public health infrastructure using the Public Health 3.0 concept. This high-risk community represented a large portion of essential workers, who even before the pandemic faced less access to health care and were structurally marginalized. The authors discuss equity strategies including prioritizing COVID-19 public relief funds and allocating testing and vaccines to these communities. The paper also reviews how to improve public health infrastructure to mitigate disparities immigrant communities face by addressing social determinants of health, communicating about and structuring policies and programs that do not require identification, engaging cross-sector stakeholders, and developing tools to collect relevant, appropriate data.
Resource Details
- Population: Non U.S. Born Persons
- Setting/Context of Implementation: Community
- Topics of Practice: Outreach/ Education/ Communications|Policy Change/ Development|Testing|Vaccination
- Outcomes of Interest: Advancing Racial Equity|Reduction of Health Disparities
- Level of Evidence: Promising
- Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
- Social Determinants of Health: Economic Stability|Healthcare Access and Quality
- Outside of US: No