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COVID-19 in New Mexico Tribal Lands: Understanding the Role of Social Vulnerabilities and Historical Racisms.
Yellow Horse, Aggie J; Deschine Parkhurst, Nicholet A; Huyser, Kimberly R.
Afiliação
  • Yellow Horse AJ; School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.
  • Deschine Parkhurst NA; School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.
  • Huyser KR; Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Front Sociol ; 5: 610355, 2020.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33869526
The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionally affected Indigenous Peoples. Unfortunately, there is no accurate understanding of COVID-19's impacts on Indigenous Peoples and communities due to systematic erasure of Indigenous representation in data. Early evidence suggests that COVID-19 has been able to spread through pre-pandemic mechanisms ranging from disproportionate chronic health conditions, inadequate access to healthcare, and poor living conditions stemming from structural inequalities. Using innovative data, we comprehensively investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples in New Mexico at the zip code level. Specifically, we expand the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to include the measures of structural vulnerabilities from historical racisms against Indigenous Peoples. We found that historically-embedded structural vulnerabilities (e.g., Tribal land status and higher percentages of house units without telephone and complete plumbing) are critical in understanding the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 that American Indian and Alaska Native populations are experiencing. We found that historically-embedded vulnerability variables that emerged epistemologically from Indigenous knowledge had the largest explanatory power compared to other social vulnerability factors from SVI and COVID-19, especially Tribal land status. The findings demonstrate the critical need in public health to center Indigenous knowledge and methodologies in mitigating the deleterious impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples and communities, specifically designing place-based mitigating strategies.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Aspecto: Equity_inequality País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: Front Sociol Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos País de publicação: Suíça

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Aspecto: Equity_inequality País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: Front Sociol Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos País de publicação: Suíça