The Unequal Pandemic COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities
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ArtikelUtgivningsinformation: Bristol Policy Press 2021Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (198 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781447361237
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social and ethical issues
- Social discrimination and social justice
- Economics, Finance, Business and Management
- Economics
- Economic and financial crises and disasters
- Medicine
- Medicine: general issues
- Public health and preventive medicine
- Business and Management
- COVID-19
- Finance
- Health
- Inequality
- J Society and Social Sciences
- JB Society and culture
- JBF Social and ethical issues
- JBFA Social discrimination and social justice
- K Economics
- KC Economics
- KCX Economic and financial crises and disasters
- M Medicine and Nursing
- MB Medicine
- MBN Public health and preventive medicine
- Pandemic
- general
- general issues
- health inequalities
- thema EDItEUR
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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.
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