Who Counts and Who Gets Counted? Health Equity in Infectious Disease Surveillance

Affiliations

¹ Grace A. Noppert is with the Social Environment and Health Group, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Lauren C. Zalla is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Editorial

Grace A Noppert et al. Am J Public Health. 2021 Jun.

. 2021 Jun;111(6):1004-1006.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306249.

¹ Grace A. Noppert is with the Social Environment and Health Group, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Lauren C. Zalla is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

No abstract available

Comment on

Variation in Reporting of the Race and Ethnicity of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Across US States: April 12, 2020, and November 9, 2020.
Douglas MD, Respress E, Gaglioti AH, Li C, Blount MA, Hopkins J, Baltrus PT, Willock RJ, Caplan LS, Dawes DE, Mack D. Douglas MD, et al. Am J Public Health. 2021 Jun;111(6):1141-1148. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306167. Epub 2021 Apr 15. Am J Public Health. 2021. PMID: 33856884 Free PMC article.

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Use of race and ethnicity in public health surveillance: summary of the CDC/ATSDR Workshop. MMWR Recomm Rep. 1993;42(RR-10):1–16. doi: 10.1037/e546762006-001. - DOI - PubMed
1. Krieger N, Testa C, Hanage WP, Chen JT. US racial and ethnic data for COVID-19 cases: still missing in action. Lancet. 2020;396(10261):e81. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32220-0. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Kaplan JB, Bennett T. Use of race and ethnicity in biomedical publication. JAMA. 2003;289(20):2709–2716. doi: 10.1001/jama.289.20.2709. - DOI - PubMed
1. Haozous EA, Strickland CJ, Palacios JF, Solomon TGA. Blood politics, ethnic identity, and racial misclassification among American Indians and Alaska Natives. J Environ Public Health. 2014;2014:321604. doi: 10.1155/2014/321604. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Wrigley-Field E, Garcia S, Leider JP, Robertson C, Wurtz R. Racial disparities in COVID-19 and excess mortality in Minnesota. Socius. 2020;6:2378023120980918. doi: 10.1177/2378023120980918. - DOI - PMC - PubMed