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The Unequal Pandemic
COVID-19 and Health Inequalities
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eBook - ePub
The Unequal Pandemic
COVID-19 and Health Inequalities
About this book
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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Yes, you can access The Unequal Pandemic by Bambra, Clare,Lynch, Julia,Katherine E. Smith,Clare Bambra,Julia Lynch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Health Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Index
A
African Americans 5, 6, 73
age 32, 58
see also older people; young people
alcohol consumption 41–2, 62, 63, 101
‘all in it together’ 2, 13, 67–8, 112
antibodies 20
antitrust laws 113
armed forces 92
asthma 28, 31, 85
austerity 67–8, 70–3, 101
Australia 23, 40, 43, 48, 56, 118
authoritarianism 116
avian flu 78
B
Bambra, C. 25, 29
Beatty, Tina 68
benefits, welfare 65, 68, 71, 72, 109–10
bereavement 39
Bhaskar, S. 118
billionaires 59
see also elites
Black Lives Matter 117
black swan events 77–8
border controls 36, 97, 117
Brazil 17, 116
budget cuts 84
see also austerity
C
Cameron, David 67–8
Canada
deprivation levels 15
ethnicity and race 14, 20
H1N1 22
lockdowns 87–8
mental health 40
social isolation 49
social policies 93, 98
cancer 4, 5, 28, 30, 31, 37, 38
capitalism 53
see also free-market ideologies
cardiovascular disease 4, 2...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Professor Kate Pickett
- Preface
- ONE Introduction: perfect storm
- TWO Pale rider: pandemic inequalities
- THREE Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown
- FOUR Pandemic precarity: inequalities in the economic crisis
- FIVE Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy
- SIX Conclusion: health and inequality beyond COVID-19
- Notes
- References
- Index