TY - JOUR
AU - Black, Daniel
AU - Bates, Geoff
AU - Gibson, Andy
AU - Hatleskog, Eli
AU - Fichera, Eleonora
AU - Hatchard, Jenny
AU - Md Nazmul, Hasan
AU - Rosenberg, Ges
AU - Larkin, Charles
AU - Brierley, Rachel
AU - Kidger, Judi
AU - Bondy, Krista
AU - Hickman, Matthew
AU - Pain, Kathy
AU - Hicks, Ben
AU - Scally, Gabriel
AU - Verma, Arpana
AU - Carhart, Neil
AU - Pilkington, Paul
AU - Hunt, Alistair
AU - Ireland, Paddy
PY - 2020
DA - September
TI - Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?
JO - Cities & Health
EP - S96
VL - 5
IS - S1
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480
AB - 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.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35004
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER