Binding: Hardcover
Description: How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time? In a few short months Covid - 19 devastated the world and in particular the United States. It infected millions killed hundreds of thousands and effectively made the earth stand still. Yet America was already in poor health before Covid - 19 appeared. Racism marginalization socioeconomic inequality - - our failure to address these forces left us vulnerable to Covid - 19 and the ensuing global health crisis it became. Had we tackled these challenges twenty years ago after the outbreak of SARS perhaps Covid - 19 could have been quickly contained. Instead we allowed our systems to deteriorate. Following on the themes of his award - winning publication Well Sandro Galea's The Contagion Next Time articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Because while no one could have predicted that a pandemic would strike when it did we did know that a pandemic would strike sooner or later. We're still not ready for the next pandemic. But we can be - - we must be. In lyrical prose The Contagion Next Time challenges all of us to tackle the deep - rooted obstacles preventing us from becoming a truly vibrant and equitable nation reminding us of what we've seemed to have forgotten: that our health is a public good worth protecting.
Title: The Contagion Next Time
Author(s): Galea Sandro (Dean And Robert A. Knox Professor Of The School Of Public Health Dean And Robert A. Knox Professor Of The School Of Public Health Boston University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197576427
Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2021
Category: Personal & Public Health