Public Health Ethics (SUPPLEMENTARY)

Question 1

What is public health?

Answer 1

The health of the population as a whole

Question 2

Describe the impact of COVID and ethnicity?

Answer 2

Black and Bangladeshi/Pakistani patients are disproportionally affected than other race with white patients having the best outcomes.

Question 3

What are some of the potential reasons for the disproportionate impact on non-white patients?

Answer 3

• Co-morbidities,
• Excessive exposure,
• Living in houses of multiple occupancy,
• Obesity,
• Lack of Vitamin D,
• Racism and discrimination

Question 4

Describe the effects of the pandemic on mental health?

Answer 4

More disabled people reporded worsening mental health than non-disabled. Also young people reported worsening mental health

Question 5

What are the compounding effects on young people?

Answer 5

• Mental health,
• Employment,
• Housing,
• Relationships