National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health

Social determinants of COVID-19 incidence and outcomes: A rapid review

This rapid review of literature by Upshaw et al. describes the discrepancies between social determinants and pandemic incidence and health outcomes.

COVID-19 and the gender health paradox

This journal article by Bambra et al. explores the gender health paradox of COVID-19 through biological, social, economic and public policy explanations.

Digital health equity and COVID-19: The innovation curve cannot reinforce the social gradient of health

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among an online sample of sexual and gender minority men and transgender women

This journal article by da Silva et al. presents the findings from a study investigating the prevalence of COVID-19 testing, diagnosis, and vaccine acceptance among sexual and gender minority people in the United States.

Mental health framework: Coronavirus pandemic in post-Katrina New Orleans

This editorial from Shervington and Richardson describes the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 due to racial inequities and socioeconomic disadvantage in the city of New Orleans. The authors use insight gained from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to explore the mental health effects of disasters, contextualizing recommendations to address population mental health during both the immediate crisis response and recovery phases.