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

• Superior document: Policy Press shorts insights.
• VerfasserIn: Bambra, C.; Lynch, Julia, 1970-; Smith, Katherine E.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Lynch, Julia, 1970-; Smith, Katherine E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Policy Press shorts. Insights.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2022).

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.

Table of 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 -- 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.

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.