We theorize that the social conditions surrounding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic have the potential to increase the importance of families for health and widen existing inequalities. We suggest three primary tenets important for understanding families and health during COVID‐19. First, risks of specific COVID‐19 outcomes and other health problems are unevenly distributed across families. Second, how families impact health during the COVID‐19 pandemic is conditional on public policies, organizational decisions, and concurrent events. Third, many health inequalities driven by racism, sexism, classism, and other oppressive societal forces are amplified during COVID‐19, but the extent to which this is occurring is shaped by families and by the public policies, organizational decisions, and concurrent events that also impact families and health. As health disparities continue to emerge from this pandemic, we call on researchers and policymakers to pay attention to the multiple ways that families matter.

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COVID-19 大流行期间，家庭对健康不平等有何影响


我们认为，围绕 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 大流行的社会条件有可能提高家庭对健康的重要性，并扩大现有的不平等现象。我们提出了三个对于理解 COVID-19 期间的家庭和健康非常重要的主要原则。首先，特定的 COVID-19 结果和其他健康问题的风险在家庭中分布不均匀。其次，家庭在 COVID-19 大流行期间如何影响健康取决于公共政策、组织决策和并发事件。第三，在 COVID-19 期间，种族主义、性别歧视、阶级主义和其他压迫性社会力量造成的许多健康不平等现象被放大，但这种现象发生的程度是由家庭以及公共政策、组织决策和同时发生的事件决定的。也影响家庭和健康。随着这一流行病继续出现健康差异，我们呼吁研究人员和政策制定者关注家庭的多种重要性。