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.accessioned | 2021-11-15T10:25:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-15T10:25:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51451 | |
| 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. | en_US |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCX Economic and financial crises and disasters | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | COVID-19; Health; health inequalities; Inequality; Pandemic | en_US |
| dc.title | The Unequal Pandemic | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities | en_US |
| dc.type | book | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.47674/9781447361237 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | f394f44e-e957-4b77-91b6-32fe9c22978a | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781447361237 | en_US |
| oapen.pages | 198 | en_US |
| oapen.place.publication | Bristol | en_US |
