Health Equity

US Health Care Relies on Filipinxs While Ignoring Their Health Needs

Abstract: This Viewpoint explains how data aggregation under a single Asian category has hidden the real health and death toll of COVID-19 among Filipinx in the US, especially the large portion of which are frontline health care workers.

Publication: JAMA Health Forum

Date Published: July 23, 2021

Author(s): Carlos Irwin A. Oronce, MD, MPH; Alexander C. Adia, MPH and Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP

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