TY - JOUR
T1 - Political economy of covid-19
T2 - Extractive, regressive, competitive
AU - Bump, Jesse B.
AU - Baum, Fran
AU - Sakornsin, Milin
AU - Yates, Robert
AU - Hofman, Karen
PY - 2021/1/22
Y1 - 2021/1/22
N2 - The common challenge of covid-19 has produced very different outcomes around the world, leading to many questions about the determinants of national performance and shortcomings in global performance. Problems of reporting and standards do not make precise comparisons easy, but few would disagree that the roughly 1400 deaths reported by South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam together represent far better results than the roughly 700000 deaths reported by Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States.1Adjusting these figures for population—the first group has about a third of the citizens of the second group—does not explain why covid-19 mortality differs by a factor of nearly 500. Neither typical proxy measures such as gross national income per capita nor national rankings on the 2019 Global Health Security Index have any meaningful association with performance on covid-19.
AB - The common challenge of covid-19 has produced very different outcomes around the world, leading to many questions about the determinants of national performance and shortcomings in global performance. Problems of reporting and standards do not make precise comparisons easy, but few would disagree that the roughly 1400 deaths reported by South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam together represent far better results than the roughly 700000 deaths reported by Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States.1Adjusting these figures for population—the first group has about a third of the citizens of the second group—does not explain why covid-19 mortality differs by a factor of nearly 500. Neither typical proxy measures such as gross national income per capita nor national rankings on the 2019 Global Health Security Index have any meaningful association with performance on covid-19.
KW - Covid-19
KW - Political economy of health
KW - racial discrimination
KW - National performance indicators
KW - global performance
KW - marginalisation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100098274&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/bmj.n73
DO - 10.1136/bmj.n73
M3 - Article
C2 - 33483317
AN - SCOPUS:85100098274
VL - 372
JO - BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
JF - BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
SN - 0959-8146
M1 - n73
ER -