COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact

• Main Authors: McCann, Gerard, Mishra, Nita, Carmody, Pádraig
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol Bristol University Press 2022
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Africa; African Studies; Asian Studies; Clinical and internal medicine; COVID-19; Development Geography; Development studies; Disaster Studies; Disease and health issues; Diseases and disorders; Global Health; global South; Health Inequalities; Infectious and contagious diseases; Interdisciplinary studies; International Development; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; Pandemic studies; Personal and public health / health education; Poverty; Poverty and precarity; Public health and preventive medicine; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Social and ethical issues; Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made); Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; South Asia; COVID-19; development; pandemic; sustainability; equality; Global South
• ISBN: 9781529225655; 1529225655
• DOI: 10.47674/9781529225679

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues. The book’s assessment offers a discourse on the ways in which the impact of COVID-19 can be mitigated in some of the most challenging socio-economic contexts in the world.