Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Discretionary Risk Factors for COVID-19 Among Patients in an Early COVID-19 Hotspot

Background Baseline disparities in non-discretionary risk factors, i.e., those not readily altered, like family size and work environment, appear to underlie the disproportionate COVID-19 infection rates seen among Hispanic persons and, at surge onsets, Black persons. No study has systematically com...

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Published in:Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2023-10, Vol.10 (5), p.2363-2373
Main Authors: Newton, Erika H., Valenzuela, Rolando G., Cruz-Menoyo, Priscilla M., Feliberti, Kimberly, Shub, Timothy D., Trapini, Cadence Z. M., Espinosa de los Reyes, Santiago, Melian, Christina M., Peralta, Leslie D., Alcalá, Héctor E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affordable housing
Bivariate analysis
Black people
COVID-19
Crowding
Employee benefits
Epidemiology
Ethnic differences
Ethnic factors
Ethnicity
Family size
Health care
Health disparities
Households
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Minority & ethnic groups
Pandemics
Personal protective equipment
Quality of Life Research
Race
Racial differences
Risk factors
Safeguards
Sick leave
Social factors
Social Inequality
Social Structure
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomics
Work environment
Working conditions
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Summary:Background Baseline disparities in non-discretionary risk factors, i.e., those not readily altered, like family size and work environment, appear to underlie the disproportionate COVID-19 infection rates seen among Hispanic persons and, at surge onsets, Black persons. No study has systematically compared such risk factors by race/ethnicity among infected individuals. Methods Using a cross-sectional survey, we compared household, job, and socioeconomic characteristics among 260 Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White adults with confirmed or probable COVID-19 in New York from March to May 2020. We used logistic regression to identify independent relationships. Results In bivariate analysis, we found significant differences by race/ethnicity in the following: (1) rates of household crowding ( p  
ISSN:2197-3792
2196-8837
DOI:10.1007/s40615-022-01416-1