Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?: CITIES, HEALTH and COVID-19: Initial reflections and future challenges.
Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?: CITIES, HEALTH and COVID-19: Initial reflections and future challenges.
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10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480
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2021
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十多年来，大流行一直被列为英国国家风险登记册上最可能和最严重的威胁。非传染性“生活方式”疾病已经严重损害了我们的医疗服务和经济。COVID-19暴露了两个关键漏洞：首先，英国未能充分评估和沟通非传染性疾病的严重程度；其次，我们整个社会的健康不平等，主要是由于我们城市环境质量差。这表明，普遍缺乏预防行动和风险管理，尤其是在气候和生态危机带来的生存风险方面，可能造成灾难性后果。
For over a decade, pandemics have been on the UK National Risk Register as both the likeliest and most severe of threats. Non-infectious ‘lifestyle’ diseases were already crippling our healthcare services and our economy. COVID-19 has exposed two critical vulnerabilities: firstly, the UK’s failure to adequately assess and communicate the severity of non-communicable disease; secondly, the health inequalities across our society, due not least to the poor quality of our urban environments. This suggests a potentially disastrous lack of preventative action and risk management more generally, notably with regards to the existential risks from the climate and ecological crises.