The Unequal Pandemic : COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities

• Tác giả: Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch, Katherine E Smith
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1447361237
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol Policy Press 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (198 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 219643
• Chủ đề: 1. Economic & financial crises & disasters; 2. Public health & preventive medicine; 3. Social discrimination & inequality

Tóm tắt

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND It has been claimed that we are 'all in it together' and that the COVID-19 virus 'does not discriminate'. This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an 'equal opportunity' disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues that the pandemic is unequal in three ways: it has killed unequally, been experienced unequally and will impoverish unequally. These inequalities are a political choice: with governments effectively choosing who lives and who dies, we need to learn from COVID-19 quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future. COVID-19 is an unequal pandemic.