| spelling |
oapen-20.500.12657-514512021-12-01T00:00:00Z The Unequal Pandemic Bambra, Clare Lynch, Julia Smith, Katherine E. COVID-19; Health; health inequalities; Inequality; Pandemic bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFJ Social discrimination & inequality bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCX Economic & financial crises & disasters 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. 2021-11-15T10:25:56Z 2021-11-15T10:25:56Z 2021 book 9781447361237 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51451 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781447361251.pdf 9781447361251.epub https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-unequal-pandemic Policy Press 10.47674/9781447361237 10.47674/9781447361237 f394f44e-e957-4b77-91b6-32fe9c22978a 9781447361237 198 Bristol open access
|
| description |
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.
|
