We must take advantage of this pandemic to make a radical social change: the coronavirus as a global health, inequality, and eco-social problem

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• dc.contributor.author Benach, Joan
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-12T12:45:59Z
• dc.date.available 2024-03-12T12:45:59Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract COVID-19 not only constitutes a serious public health problem and a global major threat to the poorest and most vulnerable social groups and neighborhoods of the world, creating a potential pandemic of inequality, but also poses an enormous challenge from the perspective of public health, ethics, economy, environment, and politics. However, many of the deep and complex systemic interrelationships created and developed by this pandemic are largely hidden, unknown, or neglected, both by the hegemonic media and by a highly specialized and fragmented academic world. However, when all the available knowledge is critically integrated, the origins and effects underlying this pandemic are likely to be found in the development of neoliberal capitalism and its inherent logic of ceaseless accumulation, economic growth, large inequalities, and ecological devastation. This commentary reflects on these issues, drawing out some of the most important lessons to be learned and challenges to be faced in the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, advocating for a radical social change to deal with these challenges.
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• dc.identifier.citation Benach J. We must take advantage of this pandemic to make a radical social change: the coronavirus as a global health, inequality, and eco-social problem. Int J Soc Determinants Health Health Serv. 2021;51(1):50-4. DOI: 10.1177/0020731420946594
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020731420946594
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59385
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services. 2021;51(1):50-4.
• dc.rights The Author(s) 2020
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword capitalism
• dc.subject.keyword COVID-19
• dc.subject.keyword eco-social crisis
• dc.subject.keyword health inequalities
• dc.subject.keyword policy change
• dc.subject.keyword public health
• dc.title We must take advantage of this pandemic to make a radical social change: the coronavirus as a global health, inequality, and eco-social problem
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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