The Unequal Pandemic

COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

Bambra, Clare, Lynch, Julia, Katherine E. Smith

• Editore: Policy Press
• Anno: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781447361244
• Argomento: Médecine
• Categoria: Politique de santé

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.

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...