Covid-19 as a Global Disaster

Challenges to risk governance and social vulnerability in Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID3755048
AuthorsCarlos Machado Freitas (0000-0001-6626-9908, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Isadora Vida De Mefano E Silva (0000-0001-9946-5147, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Natália Da Cunha Cidade (0000-0001-8563-9230, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Year2020
Volume23
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200115vu2020l3id
OpenAlexW3038445159
SciELOS1414-753X2020000100906
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited3

On March 11 2020, the Director of the World Health Organization characterized the Public Health Emergency by COVID-19 as a pandemic (PAHO, 2020). In this article we understand this pandemic as a Global Disaster that can evolve into a Complex Emergency presenting risks for a Humanitarian Crisis in many countries, including Brazil. In this context we face two challenges: the governance of risks and coping and reducing vulnerabilities. In Brazil political, social and economic threats overlap with the dangers caused by the Sars-Cov-2 virus. These threats undermine the capacity for risk governance and widen and intensify social inequalities, making Brazil the new epicenter of the global disaster by COVID-19

Business · Computer security · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Global health · Health care · Inequality · Pandemic · Political science · Public health · Risk Governance · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Disaster Response and Management · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Global Security and Public Health · Medicine