Latinx Race and Ethnicity Data Gaps: The HACER Campaign and a Call to Action.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Lemos, Diana, ; Sosa, Paulina; Vallejo, Edward
- Source
- American Journal of Public Health; Oct2022, Vol. 112 Issue 10, p1412-1415, 4p
- Subject
- American Medical Association
Health services accessibility
Hispanic Americans
Cognition
Database management
Decision making
Interprofessional relations
COVID-19 pandemic
Health promotion
Racism
COVID-19
Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome
Public health
Ethnic groups
- Language
- ISSN
- 00900036
The article highlights three key data issues that were salient for the Latinx community during the COVID-19 pandemic. It include the lack of accurate data collection which is important for accurately representing the health impact and equitably support the community during a public health emergency, the lack of data reporting to inform priorities made by decision-makers, and the lack of consistently and standardization in data reporting for race and ethnicity.