During Minority Health Month, communities nationwide are shining the spotlight on disparities in health care for minority populations. Metro Health is doing the same in San Antonio, putting its main focus on immunizations.
– During Minority Health Month, communities nationwide are shining the spotlight on disparities in health care for minority populations.
The lighter colors, showing fewer vaccinated people, are in many of the same ZIP codes where Metro Health has already identified disparities in health care for minorities. However, access is still an issue, so the department is also continuing and even expanding the mobile pop-up clinic model, which helped immensely when“Since the onset of COVID, we recognize the need to have additional staff available in their own right to go out and do these vaccine clinics,” Gilstrap said.
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