Covid-19 pandemic and the social determinants of health
Apr 21 2020
Lauren Paremoer and colleagues call for action to create a fairer and more sustainable post-covid world
The covid-19 pandemic has exposed the longstanding structural drivers of health inequities, such as precarious and adverse working conditions, growing economic disparities, and anti-democratic political processes and institutions. These important determinants of health have interlinked with class, ethnicity, gender, education level, and other factors during covid-19 to exacerbate existing social vulnerabilities in society.