@article{Black_D-2020_133655,
title = {Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?},
author = {Black, D. and Bates, G. and Gibson, A. and Hatleskog, E. and Fichera, E. and Hatchard, J. and Md Nazmul, H. and Rosenberg, G. and Larkin, C. and Brierley, R. and Kidger, J. and Bondy, K. and Hickman, M. and Pain, K. and Hicks, B. and Scally, G. and Verma, A. and Carhart, N. and Pilkington, P. and Hunt, A. and Ireland, P.},
month = {sep},
year = {2020},
abstract = {For over a decade, pandemics have been on the UK National Risk Register as both the likeliest and most severe of threats. Non-infectious ‘lifestyle’ diseases were already crippling our healthcare services and our economy. COVID-19 has exposed two critical vulnerabilities: firstly, the UK’s failure to adequately assess and communicate the severity of non-communicable disease; secondly, the health inequalities across our society, due not least to the poor quality of our urban environments. This suggests a potentially disastrous lack of preventative action and risk management more generally, notably with regards to the existential risks from the climate and ecological crises.},
pages = {S93-S96},
volume = {5},
issue = {S1},
journal = {Cities & Health},
publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480},
}
