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Implications of Cultural Awareness on Healthcare Access in Marginalized Communities

While the Covid-19 pandemic has had global effects, community inequalities have led to a diversity of specific impacts. Covid-19 has specifically impacted marginalized communities at a higher rate, and a common theme has emerged highlighting a disparity in healthcare access, leading to these communities being left behind. As current literature is being released during the pandemic, data has uncovered some technical details of new challenges in healthcare access. In addition, individuals from marginalized communities may place a higher importance of cultural competency in their health care. This proposal aims to identify the ways in which access to telehealth has impacted outcomes in marginalized communities, and how individuals have changed their healthcare during this global event. It is anticipated that minority communities will have seen the most change to their mental healthcare during the pandemic, and will have reduced satisfaction in healthcare workers with differing cultural backgrounds to themselves.