The Unequal Pandemic (eBook)

COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch, Katherine E. Smith (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021 | 1., First Edition
198 Seiten
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6124-4 (ISBN)

Infos

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND This accessible, yet authoritative book shows how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. It argues that these inequalities are a political choice and we need to learn quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future.

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Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemicEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- NDIt 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Covid-19 • Health • Health inequalities • Inequality • Pandemic
• ISBN-10: 1-4473-6124-5 / 1447361245
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-6124-4 / 9781447361244