The unequal pandemic : COVID-19 and health inequalities / Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch, Katherine E. Smith ; with a foreword by Professor Kate Pickett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bambra, C. (Clare), author.

Lynch, Julia, 1970- author.

Smith, Katherine E., author.

Series:

Policy Press shorts. Insights.

Policy Press shorts insights.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol Policy Press 2021

Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This accessible, yet authoritative book shows how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, 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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Endorsement

The Unequal Pandemic: COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of figures and tables

About the authors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

ONE Introduction: perfect storm

COVID-19: the unequal pandemic

Health inequalities

Perfect storm: syndemic pandemic37

The rest of the book

Chapter Two, 'Pale rider: pandemic inequalities'

Chapter Three, 'Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown'

Chapter Four, 'Pandemic precarity: inequalities in the economic crisis'

Inequalities under lockdown

Variation in political and policy responses to the pandemic

Conclusion: pandemic politics

SIX Conclusion: health and inequality beyond COVID-19

Introduction

Trends in health inequalities: before and after COVID-19

Reducing health inequalities case study 1: German reunification in the 1990s11

Reducing health inequalities case study 2: English health inequalities strategy in the 2000s

Lessons for a post-COVID-19 future: policy

Lessons for a post-COVID-19 future: politics

Conclusion: hope in a time of COVID-19

Notes

References

Index.

Collateral social and community impacts

Collateral employment, income and wealth impacts

Conclusion: reducing collateral damage through politics and policy

FOUR Pandemic precarity: inequalities in the economic crisis

An unequal crisis

Recessions, health and inequality19

Lessons from the global financial crisis: social security nets matter

Conclusion

FIVE Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy

Syndemic pandemic: black swan, white swan, or grey rhino?

Three worlds of inequality

How political policy choices affected pandemic inequalities.

Chapter Five, 'Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy'

Chapter Six, 'Conclusion: health and inequality beyond COVID-19'

TWO Pale rider: pandemic inequalities

An unequal pandemic

Deprivation and COVID-19

Occupational inequalities in COVID-19

Racial/ethnic inequalities in COVID-19

Intersectional inequalities in COVID-19

The ghost of pandemics past

The syndemic of COVID-19 and inequality71

THREE Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown

Collateral health and wellbeing impacts.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2022).

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

9781447361244

1447361245

9781447361251

1447361253

OCLC:

1257077799