The Virus, the Disease and the Inequality

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ID3754796
AutoresLuciana Rodrigues Fagnoni Costa Travassos (0000-0001-8369-8704, Universidade Federal do ABC), Rafael De Aguiar Arantes (0000-0002-3953-9340, Universidade Federal do ABC), Renata M P Moreira (Universidade Federal do ABC), Rayssa Saidel Cortez (0000-0002-3096-4391, Universidade Federal do ABC)
Ano2020
Volume23
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200111vu2020l3id
OpenAlexW3038986053
SCIELO_PIDS1414-753X2020000100904
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas10

The advance of the COVID-19 pandemic expresses multiple territorial dimensions. The following analysis, about the data released on notified cases and deaths, allow us to raise interpretations that relate the evolution of the pandemic with the inequalities already present in the São Paulo urban space and with the different existing conditions to adhere to isolation. This article presents reviews that dialogues with the perspective of environmental justice, discussing some impacts of territorial inequalities on the life and death of São Paulo residents, such as the distribution of urban characteristics, work, comorbidities, access to health equipment, and race, that maintains a center periphery pattern. As it is an observation of an ongoing case, it is an exploratory study, with open hypotheses

Biology · Development economics · Disease · Economic Justice · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Pandemic · Political science · Regional science · Sociology · Welfare economics · Computer Science · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Medicine