@article{9d10bad8fd6a44e18f066c8c5243bce4,
title = "Reaching the Hispanic Community About COVID-19 Through Existing Chronic Disease Prevention Programs",
abstract = "Publicly available data on racial and ethnic disparities related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are now surfacing, and these data suggest that the novel virus has disproportionately sickened Hispanic communities in the United States. We discuss why Hispanic communities are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 and how adaptations were made to existing infrastructure for Penn State Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) and Better Together REACH (a community–academic coalition using grant funds from Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) to address these needs. We also describe programming to support COVID-19 efforts for Hispanic communities by using chronic disease prevention programs and opportunities for replication across the country.",
author = "Calo, {William A.} and Andrea Murray and Erica Francis and Madeline Bermudez and Jennifer Kraschnewski",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge the following organizations and people for their support: Better Together of Lebanon County; David Saunders, director of the Pennsylvania's Office of Health Equity; and Luz Colon, executive director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Latino Affairs. Better Together REACH at Penn State is supported by CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity through grant no. 1NU58DP006587-01-00. Penn State Project ECHO is partially supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through grant no. UL1 TR002014. The COVID-19 Project ECHO series is also supported by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at Penn State. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of CDC, NIH, the Huck Institutes, or SSRI. No financial support was received for this work, and no copyrighted material was used in the conduct of this research or the writing of this article. Funding Information: Better Together REACH at Penn State is supported by CDC{\textquoteright}s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity through grant no. 1NU58DP006587-01-00. Penn State Project ECHO is partially supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through grant no. UL1 TR002014. The COVID-19 Project ECHO series is also supported by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at Penn State. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020. All Rights Reserved.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.5888/pcd17.200165",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "1--7",
journal = "Preventing chronic disease",
issn = "1545-1151",
publisher = "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services",
}
