COVID-19 and Health Disparities: Structural Evil Unmasked

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dc.contributor.authorLandrigan, Philip J.
dc.contributor.authorFerrer, Lilian
dc.contributor.authorKeenan, James
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T23:51:27Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T23:51:27Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractBackground: Incidence and mortality from COVID-19 are starkly elevated in poor, minority and marginalized communities. These differences reflect longstanding disparities in income, housing, air quality, preexisting health status, legal protections, and access to health care. The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences have made these ancient disparities plainly visible.
dc.description.abstractMethodology: As scholars in Catholic research universities committed to advancing both scientific knowledge and social justice, we examined these disparities through the lenses of both epidemiology and ethics.
dc.description.abstractFindings: We see these widening disparities as not only as threats to human health, societal stability, and planetary health, but also as moral wrongs - outward manifestations of unrecognized privilege and greed. They are the concrete consequences of policies that promote structural violence and institutionalize racism.
dc.description.abstractRecommendations: We encourage governments to take the following three scientific and ethical justified actions to reduce disparities. prevent future pandemics, and advance the common good: (1) Invest in public health systems; (2) Reduce economic inequities by making health care affordable to all; providing education, including early education, to all children; strengthening environmental and occupational safeguards; and creating more just tax structures; and (3) Preserve our Common Home, the small blue planet on which we all live.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.5334/aogh.3225
dc.identifier.issn2214-9996
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3225
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/94818
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000635598200001
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaAnnals of global health
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subject.ods10 Reduced Inequality
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa10 Reducción de las desigualdades
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleCOVID-19 and Health Disparities: Structural Evil Unmasked
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen87
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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