The Unequal Pandemic : COVID-19 and Health Inequalities
2021
Online
E-Book
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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-pandemic 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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The Unequal Pandemic : COVID-19 and Health Inequalities
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bambra, Clare ; Lynch, Julia ; Smith, Katherine E. |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
ISBN: | 978-1-4473-6123-7 (print) ; 978-1-4473-6125-1 (electronic) |
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