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Author Bambra, C. (Clare), author.

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

Publication Info. Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
©2021

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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'
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
Note Back Cover.
Summary 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.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2021).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects.
COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19
COVID-19 -- economics
Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspect économique.
COVID-19 -- Aspect économique.
Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspect social.
COVID-19 -- Aspect social.
COVID-19.
MEDICAL / Health Policy.
COVID-19 (Disease)
Social aspects
Economics
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects
COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9ppxymcDb8984mKfy
Chronological Term Since 2020
Indexed Term COVID-19; Health; health inequalities; Inequality; Pandemic
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lynch, Julia, 1970- author.
Smith, Katherine E., author.
Other Form: Print version: Bambra, Clare. Unequal Pandemic. Bristol : Policy Press, ©2021 9781447361237
ISBN 1447361253 (electronic book)
9781447361251 (electronic bk.)
9781447361244 (ePub ebook)
1447361245
1447361237
9781447361237
Standard No. AU@ 000069405338
UKMGB 020164964
DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910084326605765

 
    
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