Focusing on Disproportionately Affected Communities
Health and social inequities put many people from racial and ethnic minority groups and people with lower incomes at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19. Our Environmental Health Capacity project helps states use environmental health strategies to stop the spread of COVID-19 in communities disproportionately affected by the disease.
This project, funded in fiscal year 2021, focuses on strategies that state-based environmental health (EH) programs can use to support disproportionately affected communities. Three state health departments (Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Washington) received CDC funding to
- Address EH hazards to prevent the spread of COVID-19; and
- Enhance EH services to prevent environmental transmission of COVID-19.
Collectively, this work will help CDC and state-based environmental health programs learn whether EH strategies can reduce the impact of COVID-19, particularly in certain groups more affected because of health and social inequities.
Entire content available on: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ehc/eh-strategies-to-reduce-covid-19.html
