The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main strategy to contain ...

Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19

The outbreak of coronavirus named COVID-19 has disrupted the Chinese economy and is spreading globally. The evolution of the disease and its economic impact is highly uncertain which makes it difficult for policymakers to formulate an appropriate macroeconomic policy response. In order to better understand possible economic outcomes, this paper explores seven different scenarios of how COVID-19 might evolve in the coming year using a modelling technique developed by Lee and McKibbin (2003) and extended by McKibbin and Sidorenko (2006). It examines the impacts of different scenarios on macroeconomic outcomes and financial markets in a global hybrid DSGE/CGE general equilibrium model. The scenarios in this paper demonstrate that even a contained outbreak could significantly impact the global economy in the short run. These scenarios demonstrate the scale of costs that might be avoided by greater investment in public health systems in all economies but particularly in less developed economies where health care systems are less developed and popultion density is high.

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The economic impact of COVID-19

This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio-economic, ethnic and geographical inequalities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. It then examines how these inequalities in COVID-19 are related to existing inequalities in chronic diseases and the social determinants of health, arguing that we are experiencing a syndemic pandemic It then explores the potential consequences for health inequalities of the lockdown measures implemented internationally as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the likely unequal impacts of the economic crisis. The essay concludes by reflecting on the longer-term public health policy responses needed to ensure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not increase health inequalities for future generations.

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The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities.

Background
Despite the availability of published data on 4 pandemics that have occurred over the past 120 years, there is little modern information on the causes of death associated with influenza pandemics.

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Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness

The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations—world history—the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.

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A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease.

Howard Philips and David Killingray Introduction Part I: Virological and Pathological Perspectives 1. Edwin D. Kilbourne A Virologist's Perspective on the 1918-1919 Pandemic 2. Jeffery K. Taubenberger Genetic Characterisation of the 1918 'Spanish' Influenza Virus Part II: Contemporary Medical and Nursing Perspectives 3. Wilfried Witte The Plague That was Not Allowed to Happen: German Medicine and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 in Baden 4. Nancy K. Bristow 'You Can't Do Anything for Influenza': Doctors, Nurses and the Power of Gender During the Influenza Epidemic in the United States Part III: Official Responses to the Pandemic 5. Geoffrey W. Rice Japan and New Zealand in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Comparative Perspectives on Offical Responses and Crisis Management 6. Mridula Ramanna Coping with the Pandemic: The Bombay Experience Part IV: The Demographic Impact 7. Wataru Iijima Spanish Influenza in China, 1918-1920 8. Kevin McCracken and Peter Curson Flu Downunder: A Demographic and Geographic Analysis of the 1919 Pandemic in Sydney, Australia 9. N. P. A. S. Johnson The Overshadowed Killer: Influenza in Britain in 1918-1919 10. D. Ann Herring and Lisa Sattenspiel Death in Winter: Spanish Flu in the Canadian Subarctic 11. Beatriz Echeverri Spanish Influenza seen from Spain 12. Patrick Zylberman A Holocaust in a Holocaust: The Great War and the 1918 'Spanish' Influenza Epidemic in France 13. Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne Long-Term Effects of the 1918 'Spanish' Influenza Epidemic on Sex Differentials of Mortality in the USA: Exploratory Findings from Historical Data Part V: Long-Term Consequences and Memories 14. James G. Ellison 'A Fierce Hunger': Tracing Impacts of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Southwest Tanzania 15. Myron Echenberg 'The Dog that Did Not Bark': Memory and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Senegal Part VI: Epidemiological Lessons of the Pandemic 16. Stephen C. Schoenbaum Tranmission of and Protections against Influenza: Epidemiological Observations Beginning with the 1918 Pandemic and the Implications

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 : new perspectives

The State and Rural Class Formation in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis

In the inter-war years one major role for the Royal Air Force was imperial defence. The Air Staff further argued that air power, used in substitution for the Army, would provide a more economical and effective means of policing and subjugating unrest in the remoter and more inaccessible areas of the colonial empire in Asia and Africa. The first successful major operation by the R.A.F. in Somaliland in 1920 encouraged the extension of air policing to the troublesome Middle East. The R.A.F. saw the Sudan as an integral part of its Middle East operations and throughout the late 1920s and 1930s military aircraft stationed in Khartoum were used to deal with revolt in the Southern Sudan. Continued Army opposition to substitution led the R.A.F. to seek a role in the sub-Saharan colonies. The need for defence economies as a result of the Depression, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and unrest on the Copperbelt persuaded the authorities in both London and the colonies of the need for an Air Force presence in East and Central Africa.

'A Swift Agent of Government': Air Power in British Colonial Africa, 1916-1939

During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below' that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little. Army life exposed them to a range of new and startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms, machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas, new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy. What impact did service in the army have on African men and their families? What new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War

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