The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe.
The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe.
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第二个大流行：通过欧洲的Covid-19检查结构不平等。
DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114634
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发表时间：
2022-01
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通讯作者：
Prainsack B
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作者：
Fiske A;Galasso I;Eichinger J;McLennan S;Radhuber I;Zimmermann B;Prainsack B
虽然每个人都直接或间接地受到COVID-19大流行及其控制措施的影响，但并非每个人都受到同样的影响，当然程度也不一样。2020年初的媒体报道强调了疫情的“前所未有”性质，有些人甚至预测该病毒可能成为全球“均衡器”。随后关于如何应对大流行的辩论往往围绕着保护健康和卫生保健系统与拯救生计和经济之间的对立，我们认为这种二分法是错误的。作为“大流行时期的团结研究联盟”（SolPan）的一部分，我们在德国、意大利、爱尔兰、奥地利、瑞士德语区和英国进行了为期6个月的两次采访，通过对482人的采访，我们说明了在拯救生命或拯救生计之间提出的对立，未能捕捉到通过大流行揭示的结构不平等的纠缠和长期存在的本质。与健康和财富相关的不平等相互交织，产生了“第二次大流行”，这是一位研究参与者用来解释与病毒并行的其他形式的破坏的术语。因此，我们的研究结果通过对大流行作为一种生活经历的定性理解，使这种二分法复杂化。这一大流行病是一个关键时刻，它在加剧这些现有结构性不平等的同时，也提供了一个努力更好地解决这些不平等的机会。
While everyone has been impacted directly or indirectly by the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to contain it, not everyone has been impacted in the same way and certainly not to the same degree. Media coverage in early 2020 emphasized the “unprecedented” nature of the pandemic, and some even predicted that the virus could be a global “equalizer.” Ensuing debates over how the pandemic should be handled have often hinged on oppositions between protecting health and healthcare systems versus saving livelihoods and the economy, a dichotomy that we argue is false. Drawing on 482 interviews conducted in Germany, Italy, Ireland, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland and the UK over two points in a 6-month period as part of the ‘Solidarity in times of Pandemics Research Consortium’ (SolPan), we illustrate the ways that oppositions posed between saving lives or saving livelihoods fail to capture the entangled, long-standing nature of structural inequalities that have been revealed through the pandemic. Health- and wealth-related inequalities intersect to produce the “second pandemic,” a term used by a research participant to explain the other forms of devastation that run in parallel with virus. Our findings thus complicate such dichotomies through a qualitative understanding of the pandemic as a lived experience. The pandemic emerges as a critical juncture which, in exacerbating these existing structural inequalities, also poses an opportunity to work to better resolve them.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113794
发表时间：
2021-04
期刊：
Social science & medicine (1982)
影响因子：
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作者：
Galanis G;Hanieh A
通讯作者：
Hanieh A
DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113554
发表时间：
2021-01
期刊：
Social science & medicine (1982)
影响因子：
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作者：
Clouston SAP;Natale G;Link BG
通讯作者：
Link BG
影响因子：
2.9
作者：
Prainsack, Barbara
通讯作者：
Prainsack, Barbara
影响因子：
6.3
作者：
Bambra, Clare;Riordan, Ryan;Matthews, Fiona
通讯作者：
Matthews, Fiona