Reaching the Hispanic Community About COVID-19 Through Existing Chronic Disease Prevention Programs

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Calo, William A. ; Murray, Andrea ; Francis, Erica ; Bermudez, Madeline ; Kraschnewski, Jennifer
• Description:
  Publicly available data on racial and ethnic disparities related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are now surfacing, and these data suggest that the novel virus has disproportionately sickened Hispanic communities in the United States. We discuss why Hispanic communities are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 and how adaptations were made to existing infrastructure for Penn State Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) and Better Together REACH (a community-academic coalition using grant funds from Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) to address these needs. We also describe programming to support COVID-19 efforts for Hispanic communities by using chronic disease prevention programs and opportunities for replication across the country.
• Subjects:
  Commentary Coronavirus Infections COVID-19
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  32584753
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7316420
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  UL1 TR002014/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  17
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2cce2170049fd68553d2dc1ae769d6de3fef3808ab6e35ee2865ac59fd59f805230833e55a4d23b4f78fe269afda2ff8df3a1d591d73f089fefe4c9a57819ae0
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/90271/cdc_90271_DS1.pdf
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