Abstract:
:This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio-economic, ethnic and geographical inequalities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. It then examines how these inequalities in COVID-19 are related to existing inequalities in chronic diseases and the social determinants of health, arguing that we are experiencing a syndemicpandemic It then explores the potential consequences for health inequalities of the lockdown measures implemented internationally as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the likely unequal impacts of the economic crisis. The essay concludes by reflecting on the longer-term public health policy responses needed to ensure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not increase health inequalities for future generations.
journal_name
J Epidemiol Community Healthjournal_title
Journal of epidemiology and community healthauthors
Bambra C,Riordan R,Ford J,Matthews Fdoi
10.1136/jech-2020-214401subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-11-01 00:00:00pages
964-968issue
11eissn
0143-005Xissn
1470-2738pii
jech-2020-214401journal_volume
74pub_type
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