Inequity and disparities mar existing global research evidence on Long COVID

Since the pandemic began in December 2019, SARS-Cov2 has accentuated the wide gap and disparities in socioeconomic and healthcare access at individual, community, country, and regional levels. More than two years into the current pandemic, up to three-fourths of the patients are reporting continued...

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Published in:Global health promotion 2023-03, Vol.30 (1), p.63-67
Main Authors: Taghrir, Mohammad Hossein, Akbarialiabad, Hossein, Abdollahi, Ashkan, Ghahramani, Nasrollah, Bastani, Bahar, Paydar, Shahram, Razani, Babak, Mwangi, John, Asadi-Pooya, Ali A., Roozbeh, Jamshid, Malekmakan, Leila, Kumar, Manasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case reports
Collaboration
Communicable Diseases
Comorbidity
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Epidemics
Evidence
Funding
Geography
Global health
Health care access
Health disparities
Health promotion
Heterogeneity
Humans
Income
Industrialized nations
Infections
Long COVID
Medical Education
Medical research
Pandemics
Patients
Pediatrics
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
Recognition (Achievement)
RNA, Viral
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Socioeconomic factors
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Summary:Since the pandemic began in December 2019, SARS-Cov2 has accentuated the wide gap and disparities in socioeconomic and healthcare access at individual, community, country, and regional levels. More than two years into the current pandemic, up to three-fourths of the patients are reporting continued signs and symptoms beyond the acute phase of COVID-19, and Long COVID portends to be a major challenge in the future ahead. With a comprehensive overview of the literature, we found that most studies concerning long COVID came from high and upper-middle income countries, and people of low-income and lower-and-middle income regions and vulnerable groups with comorbid conditions have been neglected. Apart from the level of income, there is a significant geographical heterogeneity in investigating the Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or what we call now, long COVID. We believe that these recognizing health disparities is crucial from equity perspective and is the first step toward global health promotion.
ISSN:1757-9759
1757-9767
DOI:10.1177/17579759221113276