COVID-19 and Health System Segregation in the US
Racial Health Disparities and Systemic Racism
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COVID-19 Deaths
This study used the CDC dataset (January 1, 2020–April, 17, 2021) on Provisional COVID-19 Deaths by County, and Race and Hispanic Origin, with the available data from 760 counties within 50 States and DC. Data...
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Introduction: Segregation of Health Care
Racial health disparities and segregated health care are not new to America, as differential health outcomes between Blacks and Whites were birthed at the time of the settlement at Jamestown in 1619. Segregate...
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Systemic Racism and the White Racial Frame
The historical perspective shows that “White-imposed racism” with racial oppression, manifested through slavery and legal segregation, was a critical ingredient of the structural foundation of the USA, along w...
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Dismantling Systemic Racism and Structuration Theory
There is no question on the overwhelming evidence of racial health disparities experienced by Blacks and other historically racially disadvantaged groups. The necessity for pursuing solutions to end systemic r...
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Epidemiology of COVID-19
On December 12, 2019, a number of cases emerged caused by an unidentified pneumonia disease outbreak in a local seafood market in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. Samples from five patients tested positive...
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Methodology
The study focused on the relationship between high school students’ HIV/AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of the PLHIV; to identify their stigma-related attitudes toward PLHIV and H...
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Introduction
This chapter commences with a global overview of HIV/AIDS, and then shows the impact of this pandemic on each country—Fiji, Guyana, Vanuatu, and Antigua and Barbuda—in this multi-country study. The chapter the...
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HIV/AIDS Stigma
Overall, about two-thirds of Fiji and Vanuatu high school students and about three-quarters of Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda students showed HIV/AIDS stigma-appropriate attitudes. Fiji and Antigua and Barbuda...
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Discussion and Implications
This multi-country study was conducted over the last four years among high school students in Fiji, Vanuatu, Guyana, and Antigua and Barbuda to compare differences and relationships in students’ HIV/AIDS knowl...
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A Systematic Review of the Literature
This systematic review, spanning 27 years, synthesized several research perspectives into an across-the-board multi-dimensional framework of HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV/AIDS-related stigma among adolescents, li...
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HIV/AIDS Knowledge
Overall, all high school students in the four countries—Fiji, Guyana, Vanuatu, and Antigua and Barbuda—had moderate HIV/AIDS knowledge. Nevertheless, in relation to individual countries, Fiji and Vanuatu in th...
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Predictors of HIV/AIDS Knowledge and HIV-Related Stigma
This chapter identifies the predictors of HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV/AIDS stigma-appropriate attitudes. Prior to commencing the logistic regression analysis, it was first useful to apply the general linear F-t...
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Introduction and Overview: Indian Indentured Women as Human Agency
Western intellectual thought, through its modes of analysis and perspectives, continues to influence and sustain a biased colonial historiography on the social degradation of the colonized Indian woman. This i...
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The Indo-Fijian Woman’s Story: Violence Against Women
This chapter is about battered Indo-Fijian women who did not pen their own histories. They were not able to tell their stories to anyone but themselves because they were powerless by virtue of their gender, ra...
