The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities.


Journal

Journal of epidemiology and community health
ISSN: 1470-2738
Titre abrégé: J Epidemiol Community Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7909766

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 2020
Historique:
received: 27 04 2020
accepted: 18 05 2020
pubmed: 15 6 2020
medline: 21 10 2020
entrez: 15 6 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

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

Identifiants

pubmed: 32535550
pii: jech-2020-214401
doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-214401
pmc: PMC7298201
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

964-968

Subventions

Organisme : Medical Research Council
ID : MR/K02325X/1
Pays : United Kingdom
Organisme : Medical Research Council
ID : MR/S037578/1
Pays : United Kingdom
Organisme : Medical Research Council
ID : MR/S037578/2
Pays : United Kingdom

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

Informations de copyright

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interests: We have read and understood the BMJ Group policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: none.

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Auteurs

Clare Bambra (C)

Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University Institute for Health and Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK clare.bambra@newcastle.ac.uk.

Ryan Riordan (R)

School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

John Ford (J)

School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

Fiona Matthews (F)

Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University Institute for Health and Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

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