The Unequal Pandemic : COVID-19 and Health Inequalities Paperback / softback
by Clare (Newcastle University) Bambra, Julia (University of Pennsylvania) Lynch, Katherine E. (University of Strathclyde) Smith
Paperback / softback
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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-pandemicEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- NDIt 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:198 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Bristol University Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781447361237
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:198 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Bristol University Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781447361237
