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Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New
Statesman:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemic
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND It has been
claimed that we are 'all in it together' and that the COVID-19
virus 'does not discriminate'. This accessible, yet authoritative
book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an 'equal opportunity'
disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and
inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues
that the pandemic is unequal in three ways: it has killed
unequally, been experienced unequally and will impoverish
unequally. These inequalities are a political choice: with
governments effectively choosing who lives and who dies, we need to
learn from COVID-19 quickly to prevent growing inequality and to
reduce health inequalities in the future. COVID-19 is an unequal
pandemic.
With historically underrepresented communities experiencing higher
rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality, the pandemic has thrown
into stark relief the severe inequities in US health care. In this
special issue, a multidisciplinary group of contributors presents
empirical evidence for how the pandemic has had a
disproportionately negative impact on people of color, incarcerated
people, and people with disabilities. These articles show how the
pandemic response has been both wholly inadequate for the magnitude
of the problem and, in certain policy arenas, has exacerbated
existing inequities. Topics include changes in the treatment of
disabilities under crisis standards of care, systemic racism in the
federal pandemic health care response, and compounded racialized
vulnerability within incarceration facilities. The contributors
offer a dynamic and accessible analysis of the impacts of and
public attitudes about the varieties of inequity in the COVID-19
pandemic. Contributors. Zackary Berger, Andrea Louise Campbell,
Katharine Carman, Maria Casoni, Anita Chandra, Matthew Denney,
Doron Dorfman, Ramon Garibaldo Valdez, Sarah E. Gollust, Colleen
Grogan, Michael Gusmano, Morgan Handley, Yu-An Lin, Julia Lynch,
Carolyn Miller, Rebecca Morris, Ari Ne'eman, Christopher Nelson,
Sara Rosenbaum, Michael Sances, Michael Stein, Jhacova Williams
Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to
address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political
backlash and the transformation of European party systems. Most
attempts to explain the rise of inequality in political science
take a far too narrow approach, considering only economic
inequality and failing to recognize how multiple manifestations of
inequality combine to reinforce each other and the underlying
political features of advanced welfare states. Combining training
in public health with a background in political science, Julia
Lynch brings a unique perspective to debates about inequality in
political science and to public health thinking about the causes of
and remedies for health inequalities. Based on case studies of
efforts to reduce health inequalities in England, France and
Finland, Lynch argues that inequality persists because political
leaders chose to frame the issue of inequality in ways that made it
harder to solve.
One of the most important political and economic challenges facing
Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing
populations create conflict between generations and crisis for
health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is not so much
demographic change as the political and policy challenge of
creating fair, sustainable and effective policies for people of all
ages. This book, based on a large European Observatory study, uses
new evidence to challenge some of the myths surrounding ageing and
its effects on economies and health systems. Cataclysmic views of
population ageing are often based on stereotypes and anecdotes
unsupported by evidence. How we address ageing societies is a
choice. Societies can choose policies that benefit people of all
ages, promoting equity both within and between generations, and
political coalitions can be built to support such policies. This
title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to
address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political
backlash and the transformation of European party systems. Most
attempts to explain the rise of inequality in political science
take a far too narrow approach, considering only economic
inequality and failing to recognize how multiple manifestations of
inequality combine to reinforce each other and the underlying
political features of advanced welfare states. Combining training
in public health with a background in political science, Julia
Lynch brings a unique perspective to debates about inequality in
political science and to public health thinking about the causes of
and remedies for health inequalities. Based on case studies of
efforts to reduce health inequalities in England, France and
Finland, Lynch argues that inequality persists because political
leaders chose to frame the issue of inequality in ways that made it
harder to solve.
This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their
social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more
balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome
of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in
society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the
way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use
welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either
programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early
institutional choices into place. So while society is changing -
aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the
life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch
up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the
United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the
elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend
for themselves.
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