The Unequal Pandemic : COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities
Bambra, Clare
The Unequal Pandemic : COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities - Bristol Policy Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (198 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9781447361237 9781447361237
10.47674/9781447361237 doi
Public health & preventive medicine
Social discrimination & inequality
Economic & financial crises & disasters
COVID-19; Health; health inequalities; Inequality; Pandemic
The Unequal Pandemic : COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities - Bristol Policy Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (198 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9781447361237 9781447361237
10.47674/9781447361237 doi
Public health & preventive medicine
Social discrimination & inequality
Economic & financial crises & disasters
COVID-19; Health; health inequalities; Inequality; Pandemic