Transforming race-based health research in Canada
Geetanjali D. Datta, Arjumand Siddiqi, Aïsha Lofters
Abstract
KEY POINTS The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has laid bare some of the ways in which social structures lead to inequalities in health. It has also revealed Canada’s poor infrastructure for tracking and addressing race-based inequalities across health outcomes. Canada has been slow to
Topics & Concepts
Race (biology)InequalityPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Health equity2019-20 coronavirus outbreakRace and healthTracking (education)Key (lock)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Social determinants of healthSocial inequalityComputer scienceData sciencePolitical scienceMedicineDiseasePublic healthVirologySociologyComputer securityGender studiesNursingPathologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)MathematicsMathematical analysisPedagogyOutbreakGlobal Health Workforce IssuesPublic Health Policies and Education