Evaluating equity-promoting interventions to prevent race-based inequities in influenza outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Seasonal influenza hospitalizations pose a considerable burden in the United States, with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) communities being disproportionately affected.

Objective

To determine and quantify the effects of different types of mitigation strategies on inequities in influenza outcomes (symptomatic infections and hospitalizations).

Design

In this simulation study, we fit a race-stratified agent-based model of influenza transmission to demographic and hospitalization data of the United States.

Participants

We consider five racial-ethnic groups: non-Hispanic White persons, non- Hispanic Black persons, non-Hispanic Asian persons, non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons, and Hispanic or Latino persons.

Sett

SUBMITTER: Stafford E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11261914 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature