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Article

Exploring the Digital Divide among the Bhutanese Refugee Community during COVID-19: Engaged Research in Action

by
Jeffrey H. Cohen
1,*,
Arati Maleku
2,
Sudarshan Pyakurel
3,
Taku Suzuki
4,
Shambika Raut
2 and
Francisco Alejandro Montiel Ishino
5
1
Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
2
College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
3
The Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio, Columbus, OH 43229, USA
4
International Studies, Denison University, Granville, OH 43023, USA
5
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
*
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16854; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416854
Submission received: 23 November 2022 / Revised: 10 December 2022 / Accepted: 13 December 2022 / Published: 15 December 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reducing Health Disparities and Promoting Healthy Youth, Families, and Communities)
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Abstract

The digital divide proved a critical barrier to accessing information and healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and negatively impacted the Bhutanese refugee community. Moving beyond a technological model of the digital divide that highlights a lack of access to computers and the internet, we engaged the community to co-produce a dynamic approach that identifies the impact of socio-cultural and socio-environmental factors as well. Our paper reports on our community-academic research partnership and explores how the digital divide exacerbates health disparities in a midwestern Bhutanese refugee community. Combining the efforts of the community, anthropologists and social workers, this paper reports on the health disparities that confront the community as well as interventions designed to mitigate social inequities.
Keywords: digital divide; Bhutanese refugees; health inequalities; engaged community research; COVID-19; mixed-methods digital divide; Bhutanese refugees; health inequalities; engaged community research; COVID-19; mixed-methods

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Cohen, J.H.; Maleku, A.; Pyakurel, S.; Suzuki, T.; Raut, S.; Montiel Ishino, F.A. Exploring the Digital Divide among the Bhutanese Refugee Community during COVID-19: Engaged Research in Action. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 16854. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416854

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Cohen JH, Maleku A, Pyakurel S, Suzuki T, Raut S, Montiel Ishino FA. Exploring the Digital Divide among the Bhutanese Refugee Community during COVID-19: Engaged Research in Action. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(24):16854. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416854

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Cohen, Jeffrey H., Arati Maleku, Sudarshan Pyakurel, Taku Suzuki, Shambika Raut, and Francisco Alejandro Montiel Ishino. 2022. "Exploring the Digital Divide among the Bhutanese Refugee Community during COVID-19: Engaged Research in Action" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 24: 16854. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416854

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Cohen, J. H., Maleku, A., Pyakurel, S., Suzuki, T., Raut, S., & Montiel Ishino, F. A. (2022). Exploring the Digital Divide among the Bhutanese Refugee Community during COVID-19: Engaged Research in Action. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(24), 16854. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416854

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