TY - JOUR
T1 - Inequity and disparities mar existing global research evidence on Long COVID
AU - Taghrir, Mohammad Hossein
AU - Akbarialiabad, Hossein
AU - Abdollahi, Ashkan
AU - Ghahramani, Nasrollah
AU - Bastani, Bahar
AU - Paydar, Shahram
AU - Razani, Babak
AU - Mwangi, John
AU - Asadi-Pooya, Ali A.
AU - Roozbeh, Jamshid
AU - Malekmakan, Leila
AU - Kumar, Manasi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1177/17579759221113276
DO - 10.1177/17579759221113276
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 35962520
AN - SCOPUS:85135920045
SN - 1757-9759
VL - 30
SP - 63
EP - 67
JO - Global Health Promotion
JF - Global Health Promotion
IS - 1
ER -
