The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities
- ISBN-10
- 1447361253
- ISBN-13
- 9781447361251
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-06-15
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Authors
- Julia, Clare, Bambra
Description
It 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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