
Why is COVID-19 killing more African Americans than Whites in the United States?
By: Soma Hewa
Open Access
|Jun 2020Abstract
A social gradient in mortality and morbidity exists within countries owing to structural inequalities. Disease and health are not neutral to social, political, and economic relations, but they interact, and the human body is the stage on which these social contradictions are played out.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4038/gmj.v25i2.8018 | Journal eISSN: 1391-7072
Language: English
Page range: 7 - 11
Published on: Jun 16, 2020
Published by: Galle Medical Association
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2020 Soma Hewa, published by Galle Medical Association
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.