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COVID as a political economy event: pandemic and syndemic1

In: Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health

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  • Robert Chernomas
  • Ian Hudson

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Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, argued against the pandemic medical model preferred by infectious disease specialists that framed the COVID emergency “in centuries old terms of plague” and focused on controlling its lines of transmission. Rather, he argued that the crisis was better understood as a “syndemic”, the interaction of an infectious disease (SARS-CoV-2) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) clustered “within social groups according to patterns of inequality deeply embedded in our societies”. This chapter takes a theoretical, historical and empirical view contrasting political economy (syndemic) and biomedical (pandemic) approaches to the unequal impacts of COVID on the population.

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  • Robert Chernomas & Ian Hudson, 2025. "COVID as a political economy event: pandemic and syndemic1," Chapters, in: Toba Bryant (ed.), Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health, chapter 5, pages 50-64, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21989_5
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