- Title
- Gender inequality and health disparity amid COVID-19
- Creator
- Su, Zhaohui; Cheshmehzangi, Ali; McDonnell, Dean; Šegalo, Sabina; Ahmad, Junaid; Bennett, Bindi
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/199308
- Identifier
- vital:19198
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2021.08.004
- Identifier
- ISSN:0029-6554 1528-3968
- Abstract
- Gender inequalities could lead to grave human and economic consequences, especially amid global health crises of the coronavirus 2019′s (COVID-19) scale. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated gender inequalities women face and introduced new challenges that are unprecedented to society at large. Adverse effects of COVID-19, compounded by unintended consequences caused by public health policies such as lockdowns (e.g., delayed or canceled health services), have forced women to face issues ranging from COVID-19 infections and deaths, prolonged unemployment, to unparalleled scale and severity of domestic violence. However, though women face a canopy of debilitating challenges, there is a shortage of research that examines health solutions that can mitigate, if not offset, challenges women experience amid COVID-19. In this paper, we aim to shed light on why timely solutions are needed to mitigate gender inequalities and health disparities women face amid COVID-19 promptly. Furthermore, we underscore the imperative for cost-effective interventions that could shed light on the current health crisis and future pandemics.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Relation
- Nursing Outlook Vol. 70, no. 1 (2022), p. 89-95
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Elsevier
- Subject
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Gender Equity; Coronavirus; Women's rights; Political planning; Public policy; Sexism; Health Status Disparities; Human beings; Female; Unemployment; Intimate partner violence; Family violence; Development economics; Political science; Health Equity; Psychosocial Intervention; Public health; Equality; 4205 Nursing
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