Overview
- Brings together healthcare issues and possible policy remedies
- Presents a global perspective, covering countries on most continents
- Homes in on the economic and socioeconomic realities of healthcare and health policy
Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution (GPWD)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of inequality in wellbeing (income and wealth, health, access to health care, employment, and education) in a number of different countries around the globe. The effect of socioeconomic inequality within a country on the outcome of the pandemic is also considered. This book studies the differential effects of Covid based on location, age, income, education, gender, race/ethnicity, and immigrant status. Special attention is devoted to indigenous populations and those who are institutionalized. The short- and long-term effects of public policy developed to deal with the pandemic’s fallout are studied, as are the effects of the pandemic on innovations in health care systems and likely extensions of public policy instituted during the pandemic to alleviate unemployment, poverty, and income inequality.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Shirley Johnson-Lans is Professor Emerita of Economics of Vassar College (USA). Johnson-Lans has an academic career spanning over 50 years, during which she has taught courses and done research in labor economics, health economics, gender studies, economic inequality, and history of economic thought. She is the author of many journal articles, book chapters and the A Health Economics Primer and Wage Inequality in Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Coronavirus Pandemic and Inequality
Book Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Editors: Shirley Johnson-Lans
Series Title: Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22219-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22218-4Published: 01 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22221-4Published: 02 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22219-1Published: 31 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-382X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3838
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 276
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Economics, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Public Policy