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The unequal pandemic : COVID-19 and health inequalities /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Policy Press shorts. Insights.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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'
- Chapter Five, 'Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy'
- Chapter Six, 'Conclusion: health and inequality beyond COVID-19'
- TWO Pale rider: pandemic inequalities
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion
- THREE Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown
- Introduction
- Collateral health and wellbeing impacts
- 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
- Introduction
- 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
- 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