The unequal pandemic : : COVID-19 and health inequalities /

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

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...

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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).
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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.

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