The Unequal Pandemic
COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities
dc.contributor.author | Bambra, Clare | |
dc.contributor.author | Lynch, Julia | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Katherine E. | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2021-11-15T10:25:56Z | |
dc.identifier | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51451 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72842 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.rights | open access | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFJ Social discrimination & inequality | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCX Economic & financial crises & disasters | |
dc.subject.other | COVID-19; Health; health inequalities; Inequality; Pandemic | |
dc.title | The Unequal Pandemic | |
dc.title.alternative | COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities | |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.47674/9781447361237 | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | f21943e0-ecd3-45d9-8059-9baf413aa6cf | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781447361237 | |
oapen.pages | 198 | |
oapen.place.publication | Bristol |
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