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The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities
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This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics—drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio-economic, ethnic and geographical inequalities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. It then examines how these inequalities in COVID-19 are related to existing inequalities in chronic diseases and the social determinants of health, arguing that we are experiencing a syndemic pandemic . It then explores the potential consequences for health inequalities of the lockdown measures implemented internationally as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the likely unequal impacts of the economic crisis. The essay concludes by reflecting on the longer-term public health policy responses needed to ensure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not increase health inequalities for future generations.
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“Similarly, access to healthcare is lower in disadvantaged and marginalised communities-even in universal healthcare systems.32”
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- Disputedcites [32] Todd A , Copeland A , Kasim A , et al. Access all areas? An area-level analysis of the relationship between community pharmacy and primary care distribution, urbanity and social deprivation in England. BMJ Open 2015;5:e007328. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007328 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Conclusions (page unavailable) report the opposite pattern for the access this study measured: a higher proportion of people in England’s most deprived areas live within a 20-minute walk of a GP premises. The Discussion’s principal findings likewise say GP-premises accessibility was highest in the most deprived areas. The paper measures proximity to GP premises and pharmacies, not healthcare access in general or access among all marginalised communities. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“and across Sweden, there were inequalities in mortality between the highest and lowest occupational classes -particularly among men.7”
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- Supportedcites [7] source
The Discussion reports social-class differences in excess mortality during the July 1918–June 1919 pandemic and says they were larger among men than women. The Regression results likewise identify low-skilled men as having the highest excess mortality and farmers the lowest; the paper does not claim a uniform class gradient. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“In contrast, countries with smaller pre-existing social and economic inequalities, such as New Zealand, did not experience any socio-economic inequalities in mortality.8 9”
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- Not matchedcites [8] Rice G , Bryder L . Black november: the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand . Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005.
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- Partly supportedcites [9] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (Univariate results, page unavailable) show no significant trend in mortality risk by occupational class among New Zealand military personnel; the paper also reports no significant occupational-class association in its fully adjusted model. But it does not establish that New Zealand had smaller pre-existing social and economic inequalities or that the country experienced no socioeconomic inequalities in pandemic mortality. The study was restricted to New Zealand military personnel in the Northern Hemisphere, so the claim generalizes beyond its population. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“Another study found positive associations between people with financial issues (eg, financial barriers to healthcare access) and influenza-like illnesses during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the USA.15”
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- Supportedcites [15] source
The COMMENT section (page not provided) reports that respondents with financial barriers to healthcare were more likely to report influenza-like illness, even after adjustment for age, medical conditions, and employment. This directly supports the cited association in the US pandemic study. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“For example, globally, Mexico experienced a higher mortality rate than that in higher-income countries.12”
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- Supportedcites [12] source
The Discussion states that Mexico had higher 2009 pandemic-related mortality rates than the United States, Europe, or Australia. It also compares an estimated 11.1 deaths per 100,000 in Mexico with 4 per 100,000 in the United States. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Various studies on cyclical winter influenza in North America have also found associations between mortality, morbidity and symptom severity and socio-economic status among adults and children.16 17”
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- Partly supportedcites [16] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports that influenza-related hospitalizations increased as neighborhood socioeconomic status decreased among adults in New Haven County across four seasons. The Introduction also reports an earlier Connecticut finding for children. These passages support an association with hospitalization, but not the claimed associations with mortality or symptom severity across North America. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Similarly, old-age pensions in the UK were protected from austerity cuts after the GFC and research has suggested that this prevented health inequalities increasing amongst the older population.45”
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- Partly supportedcites [45] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Background and Discussion say UK pensioners were largely protected from austerity and suggest that maintaining these benefits may explain why the mental-health gap did not widen in the study’s older cohort. The Conclusion limits that finding to an 18-month study of the most and least deprived neighbourhoods of Stockton-on-Tees; it does not establish that pension protection prevented health inequalities from increasing among the UK’s older population generally. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Housing is also an important factor in driving health inequalities.34”
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The Introduction describes housing and neighbourhood conditions as an upstream determinant that plays a role in health inequalities. The Abstract also calls them important social determinants of health. Together, these passages support the citing sentence's broad claim. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Decades of research into the psychosocial determinants of health have found that the chronic stress of material and psychological deprivation is associated with immunosuppression.36”
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- Partly supportedcites [36] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report that chronic stressors, including unemployment and caregiving, were associated with reduced function on almost all immune measures examined. The Discussion describes the most chronic stressors as associated with broad immunosuppression. The paper does not establish material and psychological deprivation as distinct categories of stressor, so that specificity goes beyond its findings. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“Likewise, there is increasing evidence that living in disadvantaged environments may produce a sense of powerlessness and collective threat among residents, leading to chronic stressors that, in time, damage health.39”
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- Supportedcites [39] source
Section 3.3 (Meso/community level theories; page not provided) states that disadvantaged living environments may produce collective threat and powerlessness, which act as chronic stressors damaging health over time. This directly supports the attributed claim. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Housing also impacts health inequalities materially through costs (eg, as a result of high rents) and psychosocially through insecurity (eg, short-term leases).34”
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- Partly supportedcites [34] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (page unavailable) says housing tenure may affect health psychosocially: home ownership may provide greater security than renting, while debt may cause anxiety. It does not identify high rents as a material pathway or short-term leases as the source of insecurity, and it qualifies the tenure effect rather than asserting it outright. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“For example, exposure to poor quality housing is associated with certain health outcomes, for example, damp housing can lead to respiratory diseases such as asthma while overcrowding can result in higher infection rates and increased risk of injury from household accidents.34”
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- Partly supportedcites [34] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction says cold and damp housing may cause or exacerbate respiratory conditions, and that some housing-related hazards can cause injuries. The Results identify overcrowding as a housing-risk category, but the passages do not link it specifically to higher infection rates or household-accident injuries. The paper also does not specifically identify asthma as an outcome of damp housing. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“For example, inequalities in premature mortality and infant mortality by income and ethnicity in the USA decreased during the period of welfare expansion in the USA ('war on poverty' era 1966 to 1980), but they increased again during the Reagan-Bush period (1980-2002) when welfare services and healthcare coverage were cut.46”
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The ‘Post-treatment reduction of clinical risk’ and ‘Duration of Follow-Up’ sections discuss antimalarial treatment trials, not US mortality inequalities. Searches for premature and infant mortality by income and ethnicity, the war on poverty, and the Reagan–Bush period found no passage addressing the claimed trends. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“COVID-19 has laid bare our longstanding social, economic and political inequalities -even before the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy amongst the poorest groups was already declining in the UK and the USA and health inequalities in some European countries have been increasing over the last decade.50”
§ The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities > CONCLUSION
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- Partly supportedcites [50] Forster T , Kentikelenis A , Bambra C . Health inequalities in Europe: setting the stage for progressive policy action, Foundation for European Progressive Studies and the Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC). 2018. Available https://www.feps-europe.eu/component/attachments/attachments.html?task=attachment&id=168 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The “Healthier but Still Unequal” section (page not provided) reports widening life-expectancy gaps in Denmark and in England between 2010 and 2015, supporting the claim that health inequalities increased in some European countries before COVID-19. It does not establish that life expectancy itself declined among the poorest groups in the UK or USA; the search for that claim found no such passage. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“The international literature demonstrates that there were inequalities in prevalence and mortality rates: between high-income and low-income countries, more and less affluent neighbourhoods, higher and lower socio-economic groups, and urban and rural areas.”
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“These health impacts were not shared equally though-areas of the UK with higher unemployment rates had greater increases in suicide rates and inequalities in mental health increased with people living in the most deprived areas experiencing the largest increases in psychiatric morbidity and self-harm.43”
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“The COVID-19 pandemic is occurring against a backdrop of social and economic inequalities in existing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as well as inequalities in the social determinants of health.”
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“With regard to ethnic inequalities in COVID-19, data from England and Wales have found that people who are black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) accounted for 34.5% of 4873 critically ill COVID-19 patients (in the period ending April 16, 2020) and much higher than the 11.5% seen for viral pneumonia between 2017 and 2019.20”
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- Not matchedcites [20] Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre . Report on COVID-19 in critical care 17 April 2020 . London: Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, 2020.
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“For example, in Chicago (in the period ending April 17, 2020), 59.2% of COVID-19 deaths were among black residents and the COVID-19 mortality rate for black Chicagoans was 34.8 per 100 000 population compared to 8.2 per 100 000 population among white residents.21”
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- Not matchedcites [21] Chicago Department of Public Health . COVID-19 death characteristics for Chicago residents. 2020. Available https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/latest-data.html (accessed 18 Apr 2020).
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“For example, lower-paid workers (where BAME groups are disproportionately represented)-particularly in the service sector (eg, food, cleaning or delivery services)-are much more likely to be designated as key workers and thereby are still required to go to work and rely on public transport for doing so.All these increase their exposure to the virus.”
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“Lower socio-economic groups have a higher exposure to poor quality or unaffordable, insecure housing and therefore have a higher rate of negative health consequences.35”
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“People with existing chronic conditions (eg, cancer or cardiovascular disease (CVD)) are less likely to receive treatment and diagnosis as health services are overwhelmed by dealing with the pandemic.”
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“Just like the 1918 influenza pandemic (which had severe impacts on economic performance and increased poverty rates), the COVID-19 crisis will have huge economic, social and-ultimately-health consequences.”
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“Minority ethnic groups, people living in areas of higher socioeconomic deprivation, those in poverty and other marginalised groups (such as homeless people, prisoners and street-based sex workers) generally have a greater number of coexisting NCDs, which are more severe and experienced at at a younger age.”
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“For example, deprived neighbourhoods are more likely to contain houses of multiple occupation and smaller houses with a lack of outside space, as well as have higher population densities (particularly in deprived urban areas) and lower access to communal green space.27”
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- Not matchedcites [27] Bambra C . Health divides: where you live can kill you . Bristol: Policy Press, 2016.
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“Previous research has found that sudden economic shocks (like the collapse of communism in the early 1990s and the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008 41 ) lead to increases in morbidity, mental ill health, suicide and death from alcohol and substance use.”
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- Not matchedcites [41] Stuckler D , Basu S . The body economic. why austerity kills . London: Thomas Allen, 2013.
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“So, the health consequences of the COVID-19 economic crisis are likely to be similarly unequally distributed-exacerbating heath inequalities.”
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“The prevalence and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic is magnified because of the pre-existing epidemics of chronic disease-which are themselves socially patterned and associated with the social determinants of health.”
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“Similarly, the Gypsy/Roma community-one of the most marginalised minority groups in Europe-has a smoking rate that is two to three times the European average and increased rates of respiratory diseases (such as COPD) and other COVID-19 risk factors.29”
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- Not matchedcites [29] European commission . Roma health report: health status of the Roma population in the member states of the European union . Brussels: European Commission, 2014.
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“These will likely increase COVID-19 transmission rates-as was the case with H1N1 where strong associations were found with urbanity.13”
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“These state-imposed restrictionsusually requiring the government to take on emergency powershave been implemented to varying levels of severity, but all have in common a significant increase in social isolation and confinement within the home and immediate neighbourhood.”
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“This reduced access to healthcare-before and during the outbreak -contributes to inequalities in chronic disease and is also likely to lead to worse outcomes from COVID-19 in more disadvantaged areas and marginalised communities.”
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“It seems likely that there will be a post-COVID-19 global economic slumpwhich could make the health equity situation even worse, particularly if health-damaging policies of austerity are implemented again.”
§ The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities > CONCLUSION
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14% of the population of England and Wales are from BAME backgrounds.
“Only 14% of the population of England and Wales are from BAME backgrounds.”
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Most countries failed to pursue traditional public health surveillance measures and were forced to implement lockdowns.
“While traditional public health surveillance measures of contact tracing and individual quarantine were successfully pursued by some countries (most notably by South Korea and Germany) as a way of tackling the virus in the early stages, most other countries failed to do so, and governments worldwide were eventually forced to implement mass quarantine measures -in the form of lockdowns.”
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“What we do know with more certainty is that times of crisis or periods of austerity are likely to disadvantage entire cohorts/generations [60], but that this will amplify prior forms of exclusion and marginalisation [3].”
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Conclusion attributes 1918 inequalities to COVID-19
MinorThe conclusion says inequalities both then and now arose through COVID-19. Earlier, the paper identifies the historical inequalities as occurring during the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, not the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Both then and now, these inequalities have emerged through the syndemic nature of COVID-19-as it interacts with and exacerbates existing social inequalities in chronic disease and the social determinants of health.”
“More recent studies have confirmed Sydenstricker's early findings: there were significant inequalities in the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.”
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“Decades of research into the psychosocial determinants of health have found that the chronic stresses of material and psychological deprivation is associated with immunosuppression [36].”
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“There is also some evidence from the USA that the pandemic had long term impacts on child health and development [11].”
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“For example, India had a mortality rate 40 times higher than Denmark and the mortality rate was 20 times higher in some South American countries than in Europe.4 In Norway, mortality rates were highest among the working-class districts of Oslo5; in the USA, they were highest among the unemployed and the urban poor in…”
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Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 testing among staff and parents from San Diego schools
Nguyen, M., Flores, M., Vo, A. T., et al. (2023) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15854-x · Cited by 5
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“) (12) and mental factors (depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc.”
BackgroundTrends in unmet health care needs among adults in the U.S., 2019–2021
Cai, J., & Bidulescu, A. (2023) · Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107699 · Cited by 5
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“Living in a deprived community is a known risk factor for poor COVID-19 outcomes [18, 19, 20], however the data only show modest variation in case volume.”
van Doren, T. P. (2023) · American Journal of Human Biology · doi:10.1002/ajhb.24033 · Cited by 7
“Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was concern that inequalities could amplify existing differences in mortality among socioeconomic strata, citing concerns about clustered co-circulating pathogens and adverse social and health conditions (Bambra et al., 2020).”
BackgroundUnconventional data, unprecedented insights: leveraging non-traditional data during a pandemic
Bolt, K., Gil‐González, D., & Oliver, N. (2024) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1350743 · Cited by 8
“The COVID-19 pandemic was recognized by many as a syndemic due to its multifaceted impact and interaction with other heath conditions and societal environments (3, 4).”
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Charnley-Parry, I., Farrier, A., Dooris, M., Whitton, J., & Manley, J. (2024) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su16073003 · Cited by 5
Analyzing pro-vax discourse during the pandemic: Techno-scientism, elitism, anti-populism
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“Furthermore, during the pandemic, governments were unable to offer adequate material and immaterial support to the overwhelmed population (see Bambra et al., 2020; Otero-García et al., 2023).”
Saliva-STAT: Sample-to-answer saliva test for COVID-19
Boegner, D. J., Rzasa, J. R., Benke, E. H., & White, I. M. (2024) · Sensors and Actuators B Chemical · doi:10.1016/j.snb.2024.136510 · Cited by 5
Reflecting on prediction strategies for epidemics
Yildirim, M., Serban, N., Shih, J., & Keskinocak, P. (2020) · Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology · doi:10.1016/j.anai.2020.11.017 · Cited by 6
Kim, H. S., & Eun, S. J. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph18030906 · Cited by 7
“The socially disadvantaged status of the elderly in Korea might have contributed to a high risk of ID deaths [2,22,23].”
BackgroundInfluentialSituating the Pandemic: Welfare Capitalism and Canada’s Liberal Regime
Aquanno, S. M., & Bryant, T. (2021) · International Journal of Health Services · doi:10.1177/0020731420987079 · Cited by 5
Franklin, R. C., Hansen, R. A. B., Pierce, J., Tsitouras, D. J., & Mazzola, C. A. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph18042117 · Cited by 5
“Today’s many instances of police brutality against Black and brown people, combined with the global COVID-19 pandemic that disproportionately harms and kills racial and ethnic minorities [7,8,54,55], are reminiscent of the devastation experienced by Newark citizens back in the 1960s.”
BackgroundZAKAT MANAGEMENT IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ERA
Norvadewi, N., Zaroni, A. N., & Rahmah, F. (2021) · El Dinar Jurnal Keuangan dan Perbankan Syariah · doi:10.18860/ed.v9i2.13452 · Cited by 5
“Various countries are trying to solve various problems as its effects, not only focusing on solving health problems (Bambra et al., 2020; Tiirinki et al., 2020; Trougakos et al., 2020; Wang & Tang, 2020), but also anticipate the socioeconomic impacts of this pandemic (Almeida & Santos, 2020;…”
BackgroundLeaders, institutions and people during Covid-19 : Secret of Asian success
Bhalla, A. S., & Fang, J. (2021) · Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies · doi:10.1080/14765284.2021.1989885 · Cited by 5
“It has hit blacks and brown minorities much harder than the whites in the UK and the US, for example (Bambra et al. 2020; Bentley 2020; Platt and Warwick 2020).”
BackgroundPsychosocial impacts of COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study of Mirpur, Pakistan
Abdullah, F., & Shoaib, M. (2021) · International Review of Sociology · doi:10.1080/03906701.2021.1996757 · Cited by 8
“It encroached on the newer territories across the continents (Bambra et al., 2020).”
BackgroundSettels, J., & Leist, A. K. (2022) · Journal of Aging and Health · doi:10.1177/08982643221087097 · Cited by 5
“The reasons for this suggestion included reduced access to healthcare for non-COVID-19 concerns in overwhelmed healthcare systems (Bambra et al., 2020).”
BackgroundMoussa, G., Qadir, M. O., Ch’ng, S. W., et al. (2022) · Spektrum der Augenheilkunde · doi:10.1007/s00717-022-00521-0 · Cited by 5
Gunko, R., Rapeli, L., & Karell, P. (2022) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su14159496 · Cited by 5
“For example, the pandemic and the following quarantines and restrictions have caused economic difficulties comparable to economic crisis conditions [14,15].”
BackgroundInfluentialWho is essential in care? Reflections from the pandemic’s backstage
Monteverde, S. (2022) · Nursing Ethics · doi:10.1177/09697330221113061 · Cited by 5
“Since the beginning of the pandemic, they have been reminded that—despite the initial novelty of the pathogen—not only the impact of Covid-19 itself but also of public health measures of infection containment, carry unequal burdens for those concerned that follow wellknown gradients of social inequality.(2,3) In addit…”
BackgroundJirsa, V., Petkoski, S., Wang, H., Woodman, M., Fousek, J., Betsch, C., Felgendreff, L., BOHM, R. M., Lilleholt, L., Zettler, I., et al. (2022) · PLOS Digital Health · doi:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000098 · Cited by 5
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‘Hidden pandemic’: orphanhood and loss of caregivers in the COVID-19 pandemic
Spencer, N. J., Warner, G., Marchi, J., et al. (2022) · BMJ Paediatrics Open · doi:10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001604 · Cited by 5
Frohlich, K. L., Thompson, J. A., Fraser, S. L., Dupéré, V., & Beauregard, N. (2022) · Canadian Journal of Public Health · doi:10.17269/s41997-022-00703-y · Cited by 5
Katagiri, R., Tabuchi, T., & Katanoda, K. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279266 · Cited by 5
“Due to COVID-19, health inequality has been the focus of attention because of the disproportionately high mortality in ethnic minority groups [2].”
BackgroundSocial Impacts of Data Science in Food, Housing And Medical Attention Linked to Public Service
Jayanthi, R., & Sunethra, B. (2022) · Technoarete Transactions on Advances in Data Science and Analytics · doi:10.36647/ttadsa/01.01.a004 · Cited by 5
“It has been recognized that data science usage will increase by 26% by 2026 (Bambra et al. 2020).”
BackgroundExposing the Crimes of the Neoliberal State in the Governance of COVID-19
Catello, R. (2022) · State Crime Journal · doi:10.13169/statecrime.11.2.0285 · Cited by 5
“Such studies are consistent with previous research showing that strong government intervention and welfare state expansion can ameliorate health inequalities during crises and produce better health outcomes in the long-run (Labonté and Stuckler 2016; Bambra et al. 2020).”
ResultImpact of COVID-19 Restrictions on the Urban Thermal Environment of Edmonton, Canada
Qiang, C., Leydon, J., & He, Y. (2023) · Environmental Management · doi:10.1007/s00267-023-01813-0 · Cited by 5
“They are primarily in the essential industry and thus are more likely to have onsite work and less likely to be at home during a lockdown period (Bambra et al. 2020).”
BackgroundInter‐ and intracountry effects of the Covid‐19 pandemic on wages and economic growth
Afonso, Ó. (2023) · Bulletin of Economic Research · doi:10.1111/boer.12412 · Cited by 5
Slim Evidence to Suggest Preschoolers Are Emerging from the Obesity Epidemic
Maessen, S. E., Swinburn, B. A., Taylor, R. W., Gerritsen, S., Nichols, M. S., Körner, A., Kieß, W., Hancock, C., & Cutfield, W. S. (2021) · The Journal of Pediatrics · doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.04.015 · Cited by 5
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“723 >25 years old 239 (50) 59 (12) 50 (11) Schooling (%) ≤Elementary 45 (58) 0.”
BackgroundIMPACT OF SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY ON COVID-19 OUTCOMES AND SOCIAL DISTANCING IN BRAZIL
Filho, P. C. L., de Araújo, M. M. S., Ferreira, A. K. A., de Melo, M. C. F., de Macêdo, T. S., Freitas, J. L. D. M., Godoy, G. P., & Júnior, A. D. F. C. (2023) · Arquivos de Ciências da Saúde da UNIPAR · doi:10.25110/arqsaude.v27i5.2023-062 · Cited by 6
What lessons does the COVID-19 pandemic hold for global alcohol policy?
Leung, J. Y. Y., Yeung, S. L. A., Lam, T. H., & Casswell, S. (2021) · BMJ Global Health · doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006875 · Cited by 5
Equally Affected? Health-Related and Socioeconomic Adversities of the COVID-19 Pandemic in ViennaPreprint
Oberndorfer, M., Dorner, T. E., Brunnmayr, M., Berger, K., Dugandzic, B., & Bach, M. (2020) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3733369 · Cited by 5
Hanibuchi, T., Yabe, N., & Nakaya, T. (2020) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3692144 · Cited by 5
The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ethnic Minorities in ManchesterPreprint
Allen, R., Wiśniowski, A., Aparicio-Castro, A., et al. (2021) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3949593 · Cited by 5
“The links between socio-economic and health deprivation are clear (see, e.g., Nazroo, 2003; Bambra et al., 2011; Bambra et al. 2020b; Marmot, 2020).”
BackgroundThorpe, R. J., Young, K. H., Bentley, K. M., & Liburd, L. C. (2021) · Pedagogy in Health Promotion · doi:10.1177/23733799211054125 · Cited by 5
Global emergency remote education in secondary schools during the COVID-19 pandemicPreprint
Lab, S. (2021) · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · doi:10.31219/osf.io/7k59g · Cited by 8
Artificial intelligence and health equity in primary care: A qualitative study with key stakeholders
d’Elia, A., Gabbay, M., Frith, L., Rodgers, S., & Kierans, C. (2023) · doi:10.1101/2023.10.25.23297533 · Cited by 5
Existential Wellbeing in Palliative Care: A Paradigm of Existential Positive PsychologyPreprint
Wong, P. T. P., Cowden, R. G., Yu, T. T. F., & Arslan, G. (2024) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202401.0747.v1 · Cited by 4
Empirical evidence on the determinants of health expenditure in the MEDA regionPreprint
Scalamonti, F. (2025) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5111946 · Cited by 5
Naser, A. Y., & Al-shehri, H. (2025) · Healthcare · doi:10.3390/healthcare13182280 · Cited by 5
Grant, I., Chalmers, N., Fletcher, E., et al. (2023) · BMJ Public Health · doi:10.1136/bmjph-2023-000191 · Cited by 4
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Lin, S. (2024) · Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities · doi:10.1007/s40615-024-02074-1 · Cited by 5
Health inequality in medieval Cambridge , 1200–1500 CE
Dittmar, J. M., Inskip, S. A., Rose, A. K., Cessford, C., Mitchell, P. D., O’Connell, T. C., & Robb, J. (2024) · American Journal of Biological Anthropology · doi:10.1002/ajpa.24993 · Cited by 7
New directions for resilience research: The significance of volume and verticality
Clark, J. N. (2024) · Geoforum · doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104160 · Cited by 5
Trentin, M., Valente, M., Longo, E., Rubini, E., Bahattab, A. A. S., Facci, G., Ziliani, G., Carpentieri, L., Corte, F. D., & Ragazzoni, L. (2024) · SSM - Qualitative Research in Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100506 · Cited by 5
Regional and gender disparities in depression and late life expectancy in Chile
Rueda, S., Miranda‐Castillo, C., & Araya, A.-X. (2025) · Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · doi:10.1007/s00127-025-02883-7 · Cited by 4
COVID-19 and regional inequalities in childhood vaccination uptake in England: a spline regression
Sacre, A., Sowden, S. L., Bambra, C. L., Bennett, N. C., & Todd, A. (2025) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-025-24207-9 · Cited by 6
“The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to worsening socioeconomic inequalities in health and healthcare [17].”
Self-citationBai, Z., Chen, Y., Chen, J., Pang, W., Zheng, R., Deng, M., Sun, R., Lan, Y., & Li, H. (2025) · Frontiers in Medicine · doi:10.3389/fmed.2025.1620371 · Cited by 4
Structural racism and social distancing: Implications for COVID-19
Mehra, R., & Franck, L. S. (2021) · EClinicalMedicine · doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100869 · Cited by 4
“The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first pandemic in which we have witnessed health inequities [1], whether it will be the last is dependent on how well we identify, understand, and address the fundamental causes of these inequities.”
BackgroundLee, H., Restar, A., Operario, D., Choo, S., Streed, C. G., Yi, H., Kim, R., Eom, Y., & Kim, S. (2021) · International Journal of Transgender Health · doi:10.1080/26895269.2021.1989357 · Cited by 5
Vision 2020: How Caregiving and Work Productivity Outlook Shifted for Academic Pediatric Faculty
Chumpitazi, C. E., Camp, E. A., Guamán, M. C., Doughty, C. B., Kancherla, B. S., Lingappan, K., Moran, N. E., Murray, K. O., Pérez, O., Shekerdemian, L. S., et al. (2022) · Journal of Women s Health · doi:10.1089/jwh.2021.0555 · Cited by 4
de Amorim, J. S. C., Ornellas, G., Lloyd-Sherlock, P. G., et al. (2022) · International Journal of Health Services · doi:10.1177/00207314221092354 · Cited by 4
“It ultimately might hurt interruptions in health care.(18) Societies with higher levels of income inequality are associated with poorer health outcomes, including a lower life expectancy, higher rates of obesity, and disabilities since the pandemic period.”
BackgroundHarrison, J. D., Palmer, N. R., Cabrera, A., Fleisher, P., Wong, E. C., LeSarre, M., Grumbach, K., Banta, J., Tealer, L., Reynolds, A., et al. (2022) · Journal of Clinical and Translational Science · doi:10.1017/cts.2022.413 · Cited by 4
“Researchers noted the importance of the PCAB and reported very positive experiences related to (1) their overall experience and value of the PCAB consultation, (2) how it met their expectations for feedback, (3) how well the PCAB consultation services met their needs, and (4) the efficiency of the PCAB review process.”
BackgroundHafford‐Letchfield, T., Westwood, S., & Toze, M. (2022) · Socialno delo · doi:10.51741/sd.2022.61.1.41-59 · Cited by 4
Pou, S. A., Dı́az, M. D. P., & González, L. M. (2022) · Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia · doi:10.1590/1980-549720220018 · Cited by 4
Sindemia o violencia estructural. El regreso a una vieja discusión sobre la salud y la enfermedad
Murillo, J. P. (2022) · Anales de la Facultad de Medicina · doi:10.15381/anales.v83i2.23186 · Cited by 4
Tapager, I., Joensen, L. E., & Vrangbæk, K. (2022) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115276 · Cited by 4
“Additional concern has been raised over the adverse interaction of the pandemic with people’s existing health-related disadvantage, such as chronic conditions, poorer psychosocial circumstances, and socioeconomic disadvantage (Bambra et al., 2020).”
BackgroundInvestigating initial policy responses to COVID-19: evidence across 59 countries
Saha, A., Carreras, M., & Quak, E.-J. (2022) · International Review of Applied Economics · doi:10.1080/02692171.2022.2130187 · Cited by 4
“The question of whether governments can scale up support and sustain these over the longer-term, not exacerbating pre-existing social inequalities has been debated (Gupta et al. 2021; Bambra et al. 2020).”
BackgroundRomantic Relationship Quality and Mental Health in Pregnancy During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Xie, E. B., Rioux, C., Madsen, J. W., Lebel, C. A., Giesbrecht, G. F., & Tomfohr‐Madsen, L. M. (2022) · Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1521/jscp.2022.41.5.463 · Cited by 4
Prabhu, N., Alonazi, M. A., Algarni, H. A., Issrani, R., Alanazi, S. H., Alruwaili, M. K., Alanazi, G. R. A., Iqbal, A., & Khattak, O. (2022) · Vaccines · doi:10.3390/vaccines10111945 · Cited by 5
“The issue of health inequalities noticed during disease outbreaks has been extensively investigated across pandemics [16,17].”
BackgroundStudent-led interprofessional global health course: learning impacts during a global crisis
Nguyen, A. X.-L., Xiang, L., Chhibber, R., Blanchard, H., Tikhonova, S., Zafran, H., Miller, C.-A., & Bergevin, Y. (2023) · BMC Medical Education · doi:10.1186/s12909-023-04116-4 · Cited by 4
“The pandemic has exacerbated existing and widening gaps in health equity [4].”
BackgroundLiu, W., Li, J., & Dalton, C. M. (2023) · Public Health · doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2023.06.011 · Cited by 4
“Column (3)-(4) present the original estimates of coefficients of interest, summarized from seven regressions in our twopart approach.”
InfluentialFilipe, L., Barnett, L., Piroddi, R., Buchan, I. E., Duckworth, H., & Barr, B. (2023) · Public Health · doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2023.06.037 · Cited by 4
Bennett, E., Dayson, C., Rees, J., Patmore, B., & Damm, C. (2023) · Human Services Organizations Management Leadership & Governance · doi:10.1080/23303131.2023.2248611 · Cited by 7
“…of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Government responses have led scholars to describe it as a “syndemic”, the effects of which interacted with and exacerbated existing inequalities, giving rapid rise to a diverse range of personal, financial, and community needs (Bambra et al., 2020).”
BackgroundCîrstea, A., Johnson, L., & Phiri, C. (2023) · SSM - Qualitative Research in Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100387 · Cited by 4
Vanthomme, K., Gadeyne, S., Devleesschauwer, B., & den Borre, L. V. (2023) · Journal of Public Health · doi:10.1007/s10389-023-02180-0 · Cited by 4
“COVID-19 being a syndemic pandemic, the underlying mechanisms are numerous (Bambra et al. 2020).”
Dahu, B. M., Khan, S., Salman, A. A., Andraws, Y. M., Daken, A. A., & Aburayya, A. (2024) · National Journal of Community Medicine · doi:10.55489/njcm.150120243461 · Cited by 4
Dynamics of a two-patch SIR model with disease surveillance mediated infection force
Sun, G., Jin, Z., & Mai, A. (2024) · Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation · doi:10.1016/j.cnsns.2024.107872 · Cited by 4
Kern, M., Glatz, T., Mall, M. A., Seybold, J., Kurth, T., Mockenhaupt, F. P., & Theuring, S. (2024) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0302995 · Cited by 6
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the socioeconomic gradient of hypertension
Vallée, A. (2024) · Journal of Public Health Policy · doi:10.1057/s41271-024-00491-4 · Cited by 4
“Emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the existing socioeconomic disparities in health [5, 6].”
Bakal, M., Ambriz, E., Ortiz-Pivaral, L., Kogut, K. R., Snell‐Rood, C., Rauch, S. A., Eskenazi, B., & Deardorff, J. (2024) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-024-19438-1 · Cited by 5
“The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and SIP policies varied widely and disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), the low-income, and essential workers [2–6].”
BackgroundCénat, J. M., Mathieu, J., Farahi, S. M. M. M., Dalexis, R. D., & King, R. U. (2024) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-024-07134-7 · Cited by 4
“It is well documented that the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected Black people and other racialized individuals in Western countries (Bambra et al., 2020; Gupta & Aitken, 2022 ; Yancy, 2020) with higher rates of SARS-COV-2 infection, hospitalizations, and deaths.”
Blamire, J., & Rees, J. (2025) · Social Policy and Administration · doi:10.1111/spol.13126 · Cited by 4
Jackson, C., Mondal, S., Ruggiero, E. D., & Gautier, L. (2025) · Annals of Global Health · doi:10.5334/aogh.4583 · Cited by 5
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Popić, T., & Moise, A. D. (2025) · Journal of European Public Policy · doi:10.1080/13501763.2025.2456017 · Cited by 4
“Reforms privatising healthcare provision have been high on governments’ agendas of policy reforms across Europe for the last several decades.”
InfluentialAs vacinas no Brasil da pandemia: um estudo de percepção pública
Castelfranchi, Y., Mendes, I. M., Fagundes, V. O., Massarani, L., Moreira, I. D. C., & Polino, C. (2025) · Ciência & Saúde Coletiva · doi:10.1590/1413-81232025304.16802023 · Cited by 11
Winter is coming, and it is going to be tough: COVID-19 and winter preparedness
Merrick, R. L., Walsh, S., Ford, J. A., et al. (2020) · Public Health · doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2020.07.037 · Cited by 4
Self-citationCardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Coronavirus Disease 2019: Rebalancing Risk, Reward, and Autonomy*
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“The need for attention toward any impact on exiting disparities is all the more critical, because COVID-19 disproportionally affects minority communities in incidence, mortality, and economic loss, magnifying preexisting structural inequities (24).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bambra, C., Riordan, R., Ford, J., & Matthews, F.
- Affiliations
- Newcastle University (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Bambra, Clare
- Venue
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2020-06-13
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 964-968
- ISSN
- 0141-7681 (ISSN-L)
- 0143-005X
- 1470-2738
- PMC
- PMC7298201
- OpenAlex
- W3034285292
- Cited by
- 2,118
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 216 · 2025: 196 · 2024: 298 · 2023: 364 · 2022: 508 · 2021: 454 · 2020: 80
- FWCI
- 174.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR200173)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, syndemic, social determinants of health, socioeconomic disparities, ethnic inequality, regional disparities, economic impact of lockdown, public health policy
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Pneumonia, Viral, Socioeconomic Factors, Coronavirus Infections, Health Status Disparities, Healthcare Disparities, Pandemics, Social Determinants of Health
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