Poverty, inequality and COVID-19: the forgotten vulnerable

Ghosh

Sustainable Cities and Society

et al. 2021

111

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Living environment matters: Unravelling the spatial clustering of COVID-19 hotspots in Kolkata megacity, India

Ghosh

Sustainable Cities and Society

et al. 2021

111

Public Management Review

“…In the UK, a recent report laid out just how devastating COVID-19 has been to those who already experience disadvantage. Public health experts are showing that disadvantaged people are more vulnerable to infection because they are more likely to live in overcrowded accommodation, work in occupations where there aren't work from home options, are more likely to have unstable work and income, present later for health care services, and often have reduced access to health-care COVID-19 presents a much higher health risk for the already disadvantaged groups in society (Patel et al 2020).…”

Section: Justice Inequality and Entrenched Disadvantagementioning

confidence: 99%

Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19

O’Flynn

2020

This article explores key challenges emanating from COVID-19 and how public management and administration research can contribute to addressing them. To do this I discuss the 'big questions' debate and then sketch two big thematic challenges. In articulating these, I point to interconnections across various levels of analysis and argue we need to work across a range of boundaries and get more comfortable with complexity. My key argument being that both during and in the aftermath of a catastrophic global pandemic, it is at the intersections, not in silos, that we are likely to move forward intellectually and practically.

“…Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic brought inequalities in socioeconomic status (SES) into sharp focus. Disproportionately worse health outcomes were reported in low-SES individuals (Patel et al 2020). SES is a multifactorial construct that tracks dimensions of lifestyle, habitus, and world view, such as economic resources, occupational prestige and education attainment (Farah, 2017;Muscatell, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Population variability in social brain morphology: links to socioeconomic status and health disparity

Suryoputri

Kiesow

Bzdok

2020

Preprint

Health disparity across layers of society involves reasons beyond the healthcare system. Socioeconomic status (SES) shapes people’s daily interaction with their social environment, and is known to impact various health outcomes. Using generative probabilistic modeling, we investigated health satisfaction and complementary indicators of socioeconomic lifestyle in the human social brain. In a population cohort of ~10,000 UK Biobank participants, our first analysis probed the relationship between health status and subjective social standing (i.e., financial satisfaction). We identified volume effects in participants unhappy with their health in regions of the higher associative cortex, especially the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) and bilateral temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). Specifically, participants in poor subjective health showed deviations in dmPFC and TPJ volume as a function of financial satisfaction. The second analysis on health status and objective social standing (i.e., household income) revealed volume deviations in regions of the limbic system for individuals feeling unhealthy. In particular, low-SES participants dissatisfied with their health showed deviations in volume distributions in the amygdala and hippocampus bilaterally. Thus, our population-level evidence speaks to the possibility that health status and socioeconomic position have characteristic imprints in social brain differentiation.