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Social protection in the time of COVID-19

Posted on July 19, 2021 by BMJ GH Blogs

  Pandemics are highly inequitable. They impose a disproportionate burden on those at the lower end of the income distribution. In the case of COVID-19, control efforts through social distancing and population lockdowns have brought additional deprivations on vulnerable populations. In low- and middle- income countries (LMIC) and elsewhere, the slowdown in economic activity has […]

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There are two pandemics, but why do we keep forgetting the underlying one?

Posted on August 7, 2020 by BMJ GH Blogs

  The pervasive poverty pandemic is a major threat to health and survival. History books and fiction frequently feature the tight links between poverty and health, but this ‘common knowledge’ is consistently ignored in political responses to public health challenges. Given the firmly established relationship between poverty and health inequalities, explained by the “inequitable distribution of […]

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