Bambra Clare. The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

Policy Press, 2021. — 198 p. — ISBN 1447361237, 9781447361237.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.The Unequal Pandemic: COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities
Copyright informationList of figures and tables
About the authorsForewordONE 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 inequalitiesAn 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 inequality71THREE Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdownCollateral 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 crisisAn unequal crisis
Recessions, health and inequality19
Lessons from the global financial crisis: social security nets matterFIVE 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-19Trends 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
NotesBack Cover