LAW AS A DETERMINANT OF HEALTH: COVID-19 and Gender

Thomson, M

LAW AS A DETERMINANT OF HEALTH: COVID-19 and Gender

Thomson, M

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Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Covid-19, 2024, pp. 16-27
Issue Date:: 2024-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Thomson, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1570-2481
dc.date.accessioned	2024-11-18T00:12:05Z
dc.date.available	2024-11-18T00:12:05Z
dc.date.issued	2024-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	The Routledge Companion to Gender and Covid-19, 2024, pp. 16-27
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/181937
dc.description.abstract	COVID-19 has impacted disproportionately along familiar fault lines of systemic inequality and disadvantage. It has highlighted once more how health inequalities are driven by social inequalities, and the pressing need to address these if health equity and social justice are to be improved. This chapter explores the role of law in this context. It assesses moves to explicitly articulate law within the social determinants of health framework and questions the place of addressing inequalities in these accounts. It is argued that in demonstrating the connection between social and health inequalities so profoundly and urgently, the pandemic is a provocation to look again at how law and legal systems might help in delivering greater health justice. Focusing on the gendered impacts of COVID-19, the pandemic illustrates the necessity of a public health law that foregrounds law’s role in improving fairness in social arrangements and the distribution of resources.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartof	The Routledge Companion to Gender and Covid-19
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4324/9781003267904-3
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dc.title	LAW AS A DETERMINANT OF HEALTH: COVID-19 and Gender
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
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utslib.copyright.embargo	2026-06-30T00:00:00+1000Z
dc.date.updated	2024-11-18T00:12:04Z
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Abstract:

COVID-19 has impacted disproportionately along familiar fault lines of systemic inequality and disadvantage. It has highlighted once more how health inequalities are driven by social inequalities, and the pressing need to address these if health equity and social justice are to be improved. This chapter explores the role of law in this context. It assesses moves to explicitly articulate law within the social determinants of health framework and questions the place of addressing inequalities in these accounts. It is argued that in demonstrating the connection between social and health inequalities so profoundly and urgently, the pandemic is a provocation to look again at how law and legal systems might help in delivering greater health justice. Focusing on the gendered impacts of COVID-19, the pandemic illustrates the necessity of a public health law that foregrounds law’s role in improving fairness in social arrangements and the distribution of resources.

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