Why addressing inequality must be central to pandemic preparedness
BMJ Global Health
; 7(9), 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2020022
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore long-standing inequities that resulted in certain already-vulnerable groups bearing a disproportionate burden of the disease. The poor have worse health outcomes and access to care, and live and work in inferior conditions, leading to a greater risk of severe illness and death.
Medical Sciences; Health policy; Health systems; Health economics; Infections; COVID-19 vaccines; Socioeconomic factors; Fatalities; Trends; Planning; Mortality; Low income groups; Income inequality; Pandemics; Epidemics; Health disparities; Demography; Disease prevention; Ethnicity; Race; Coronaviruses; United States--US
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ProQuest Central
Language:
English
Journal:
BMJ Global Health
Year:
2022
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Article
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