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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has worsened health disparities worldwide. Across all nations, the burden of COVID-19 has fallen most heavily on the socially disadvantaged. In the United States, the COVID-19 mortality rate for Black Americans is over twice that of their White American counterparts, and people in prisons have more than double the COVID-19 mortality rate of the general U.S. population. Other social dimensions such as income, gender, sexuality, and immigration status have also played a significant role in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality. The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the pandemic''s effect across populations and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups in society, including racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, and incarcerated populations. Written by leading international scholars, this essential volume describes how the COVID-19 pandemic intersects with nearly every social determinant of health,
Trade ReviewThe COVID-19 pandemic showed, yet again, that the consequences of pandemics emerge from far more than the pathogen itself. They emerge from the social conditions that set the stage for who becomes sick, who lives, and who dies. This book offers a comprehensive account of the social forces that created the COVID-19 pandemic and points to lessons we would be wise to learn if we are to mitigate the next pandemic. * Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University *
The distribution and control of disease in human populations has always been profoundly and inextricably social. As these authors skillfully and exhaustively demonstrate, the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a paradigmatic case study of the social determinants of exposure, infection, and disease. Race, gender, class, and power all play starring roles in this terrible saga, along with work, housing, policing and trust. This book provides a comprehensive account of how to understand mass disease in terms of a society out of joint. * Jay S. Kaufman, PhD, Professor, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University *
