Iyanda, Ayodeji E.Boakye, KwadwoLu, Yongmei2022-11-172022-11-172021-08-05Iyanda, A., Boakye, K., & Lu, Y. (2021). COVID-19: Evidenced health disparity. Encyclopedia, 1(03), pp. 744-763.2673-8392https://hdl.handle.net/10877/16317Health disparity is an unacceptable, unjust, or inequitable difference in health outcomes among different groups of people that affects access to optimal health care, as well as deterring it. Health disparity adversely affects disadvantaged subpopulations due to a higher incidence and prevalence of a particular disease or ill health. Existing health disparity determines whether a disease outbreak such as coronavirus disease 2019, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), will significantly impact a group or a region. Hence, health disparity assessment has become one of the focuses of many agencies, public health practitioners, and other social scientists. Successful elimination of health disparity at all levels requires pragmatic approaches through an intersectionality framework and robust data science.Text20 pages1 file (.pdf)enhealth disparityintersectionalitydata sciencemachine learningpublic healthGISGeography and Environmental StudiesArticlehttps://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia1030057This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.