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“We've all got the virus inside us now”: Disaggregating public health relations and responsibilities for health protection in pandemic London

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  • Kasstan, Ben
  • Mounier-Jack, Sandra
  • Gaskell, Katherine M.
  • Eggo, Rosalind M.
  • Marks, Michael
  • Chantler, Tracey

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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted ethnic minorities in the global north, evidenced by higher rates of transmission, morbidity, and mortality relative to population sizes. Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods in London had extremely high SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence rates, reflecting patterns in Israel and the US. The aim of this paper is to examine how responsibilities over health protection are conveyed, and to what extent responsibility is sought by, and shared between, state services, and ‘community’ stakeholders or representative groups, and families in public health emergencies.

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  • Kasstan, Ben & Mounier-Jack, Sandra & Gaskell, Katherine M. & Eggo, Rosalind M. & Marks, Michael & Chantler, Tracey, 2022. "“We've all got the virus inside us now”: Disaggregating public health relations and responsibilities for health protection in pandemic London," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 309(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:309:y:2022:i:c:s0277953622005433
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115237
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