ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities.
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879 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,979 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Global maternal mortality associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2025Pooled it
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- Couples and parenting dynamics during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review of the literature.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- The pursuit of equity in COVID-19 policy and policymaking: A qualitative systematic review.Open research Europe · 2025Pooled it
- Associations between food insecurity in high-income countries and pregnancy outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Global prevalence of violence against children and adolescents during COVID-19: A meta-analysis.Child abuse & neglect · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence, severity and risk factors of psychiatric disorders amongst sexual and gender diverse young people during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the HIV care continuum and related factors in economically disadvantaged nations: an integrated analysis using mixed-methods systematic review.European journal of medical research · 2024Pooled it
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- Mobile Intervention for Increasing COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Schools Serving Disadvantaged Communities: Randomized Controlled Trial of SCALE-UP Counts.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Using After Action Review to Identify Rapid Response Implementation Strategies for Emerging Drugs Among Youth.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- The syndemic nexus: How vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 interact to influence vaccine uptake among university students.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- Significant but small: the modest impact of population ageing on reported COVID-19 case rates worldwide.Future science OA · 2026Article
- Intersectional inequalities in COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality: A nationwide MAIHDA study of Swedish adults across four pandemic waves (2020-2022).SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Retrospective analysis of preventable procedural adverse events (ICD-10 Y62-Y69) in the TriNetX network: a multiregional study before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ quality & safety · 2026Article
- [Social determinants and COVID-19 mortality: Systematic review of the role of primary care].Atencion primaria · 2026Article
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Abstract
This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio-economic, ethnic and geographical inequalities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. It then examines how these inequalities in COVID-19 are related to existing inequalities in chronic diseases and the social determinants of health, arguing that we are experiencing a
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