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The Unequal Pandemic

COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities

dc.contributor.authorBambra, Clare
dc.contributor.authorLynch, Julia
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Katherine E.
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2021-11-15T10:25:56Z
dc.identifierOCN: 1257077799
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51451
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72842
dc.description.abstractEPDF 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicineen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justiceen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCX Economic and financial crises and disastersen_US
dc.subject.otherCOVID-19; Health; health inequalities; Inequality; Pandemic
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCX Economic and financial crises and disasters
dc.titleThe Unequal Pandemic
dc.title.alternativeCOVID- 19 and Health Inequalities
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.47674/9781447361237
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf21943e0-ecd3-45d9-8059-9baf413aa6cf
oapen.relation.isbn9781447361237
oapen.pages198
oapen.place.publicationBristol


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