S. Francesca

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Gabor Scheiring

Georgetown University - Qatar

Francesca Sirna

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research

Simeng Wang

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research

Alessandro Bonsignore

Università degli Studi di Genova

Laurence Cox

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Michael C . Zeller

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Doris Murphy

University College Cork

Sutapa Chattopadhyay

St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada)

Dimitris Papanikolopoulos

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

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THE CHALLENGES OF COVID-19: Global Health and Inequality.

by lia lombardi, Alice Scavarda, Alessandra Sannella, Kadi Lubi, Gabor Scheiring, Isabel Roque, and S. Francesca

ESA RN16 NewsLetter Special Issue 11, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold across the world its unequal impact quickly became apparent. R... more As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold across the world its unequal impact quickly became apparent. Regrettably the pandemic has underscored what is already known from over a century of research on health inequalities: those who suffer social, economic and political disadvantage, such as the elderly, the socially deprived, and some ethnic minorities are being disproportionally infected and eventually are dying from the disease. While debate on the origins of COVID-19 and the question of whether a pandemic could have been prevented will rage for some time, it is obvious right now that so many cases of infection culminating in death are associated with trenchant inequalities across Europe (and beyond) and could have been prevented. While many political and social media pundits predict the dawn of a new, more politically and socially responsible social order, the long history of health inequality suggests that this is wishful thinking at best.

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