ArticleThe Journal of social issues2022
Age discrimination, the right to life, and COVID-19 vaccination in countries with limited resources.
Article in The Journal of social issues, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The combined effect of patient classification systems and availability of resources can bias the judgments of treatment effectiveness.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Elderly people in humanitarian crises, a forgotten population: A call for action.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Intergenerational contact during and beyond COVID-19.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Intersections of ageism toward older adults and other isms during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Age discrimination, the right to life, and COVID-19 vaccination in countries with limited resources.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- "You are stealing our present": Younger people's ageism towards older people predicts attitude towards age-based COVID-19 restriction measures.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Reducing ageism toward older adults and highlighting older adults as contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
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Abstract
This paper seeks to develop and apply a simple yardstick based on remaining life expectancy to assess whether specific health policies unfairly discriminate against people on the basis of their age. This reveals that the COVID-19 vaccine prioritization policies of several countries have discriminated against older people. Conversely, the exclusion of older people from COVID-19 vaccine testing is shown to be non-discriminatory, as is some degree of age prioritization for limited acute COVID-19 care. Age discrimination in vaccine prioritization is shown to be embedded in wider ageist attitudes in health policy, which give the lives of older people a lower social value than the lives of people at younger ages.
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