Welfare Economics and Health in All Policies: Unpaid Debt in Post-COVID-19 Times

Abstract

In the months since March 2020, when the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the situation has rapidly evolved from a public health crisis to a syndemic, with far-reaching consequences affecting the way we live, work and interact. Both direct and indirect impacts have fallen disproportionately on vulnerable population groups, increasing inequalities in health/wellbeing [1,2].