Inequalities Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: The Legacy of Socio-Demographic Fault Lines and Inter-Provincial Differences

Jaunathan Bilodeau () and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée ()
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Jaunathan Bilodeau: McGill University
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée: McGill University

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Coronavirus Pandemic and Inequality, 2023, pp 39-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Canada features among the high-income countries that have experienced some of the lowest levels of mortality from COVID-19, in league with Scandinavian countries like Denmark and Sweden (Our World in Data in Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people, 2022a. Retrieved September 15, 2022, from https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer ). However, many of the measures taken to control the spread of COVID-19 fed into existing inequalities across Canadian provinces and highlighted the impact of social determinants of health identified long before the pandemic (Link and Phelan in J Health Soc Behav 80–94, 1995, https://doi.org/10.2307/2626958 ; Quesnel-Vallée et al. in The Wiley Blackwell companion to medical sociology, 1st ed. Wiley, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119633808 ). While the existence of socioeconomic determinants of health and of their exacerbated effects in times of pandemics are undisputed, the velocity and magnitude of spread of deleterious consequences among certain underserved, marginalized, and vulnerable populations (e.g. older adults with a loss of autonomy, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) groups, essential workers, immigrant populations) at the onset of COVID-19 was quite unprecedented.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22219-1_3

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