Overview
- Focuses on the segregated U.S. health system and uses epidemiological evidence to assess the link
- Includes statistics on health disparities of COVID-19 by race/ethnicity in a single volume
- Offers takeaways for social, economic and legislative policy makers, health system leaders, and clinicians
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic
- segregated health care
- systemic racism
- racial and ethnic health disparities
- medical apartheid
- coronaviruses
- health equity
- separate but equal health system
- black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)
- comorbidity
- mortality
- spectrum infections
- bilateral pneumonia
- clinical and imaging features
- socioeconomic status (SES) and disease
- social conditions and disease
- epidemiology of health disparities
- black americans
- latinx americans
About this book
In particular, the author examines COVID-19 with a focus on the segregated health system of the US. The US health system operates on the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’, whereby the dominant group has access to quality health care and people of color have access to a lesser quality or zero health care. ‘Separation’ implies and enforces inferiority in health care. Through the evidence presented, the author demonstrates that racial and ethnic health disparities are even worse than COVID-19. As in the past, this contagion, like other viruses, will dissipate at some point, but the disparities will persist if the US legislative and economic engines do nothing. The author also raises consciousness to demand a national commission of inquiry on the disproportionate devastation wreaked on people of color in the US amid COVID-19. COVID-19 may be the signature event and an opportunity to trigger action to end racial and ethnic health disparities.
Topics covered within the chapters include:
COVID-19 and Health System Segregation in the US is a timely resource that should engage the academic community, economic and legislative policy makers, health system leaders, clinicians, and public policy administrators in departments of health. It also is a text that can be utilized in graduate programs in Medical Education, Global Public Health, Public Policy, Epidemiology, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Social Work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Misir is the holder of PhD (University of Hull, England); MPH (University of Manchester, England); MPhil (University of Surrey, England); B.S.Sc. (Honours) (Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH, England); and Certificate, Harvard University – Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety.
Professor Misir was Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies; Visiting Professor, Anton de Kom University ofSuriname; and Honorary Professor at the University of Central Lancashire in England. He was the former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana.
In addition to journal articles, he is the author of 11 books, the most recent being: HIV/AIDS and Adolescents: South Pacific and Caribbean, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019; The Subaltern Indian Woman: Domination and Social Degradation, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; and HIV & AIDS: Knowledge and Stigma in Guyana, University of the West Indies Press, 2013.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: COVID-19 and Health System Segregation in the US
Book Subtitle: Racial Health Disparities and Systemic Racism
Authors: Prem Misir
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88766-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88765-0Published: 28 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88766-7Published: 27 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 122
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Health Care Management, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Epidemiology, Medicine/Public Health, general