The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge
- 1st Edition - November 9, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Vincenzo Atella, Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 7 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 7 7 - 9
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an important watershed for modern society. The world will never be the same. Almost all economic and social activities need to be reviewed, re… Read more
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The COVID-19 pandemic represents an important watershed for modern society. The world will never be the same. Almost all economic and social activities need to be reviewed, rethought, and adapted to the new context. The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge explains a complex phenomenon that has left doubts and uncertainties among the many who want to understand.
The book fills some of these gaps by providing answers to a series of questions including why the epidemic originated, how it spread, how it was managed, how long we will have to live with it, what effects did it have on the economy, who will be most affected, how the new world will change us, and how our way of seeing the world will change. Lastly, the book proposes some solutions to prevent and be more prepared to the recurrence of such events as well as to manage them more effectively.
- Clarifies the scientific knowledge around COVID-19
- Provides a multidisciplinary analysis involving biology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, and statistics relating to COVID-19
- Focuses on the need to invest and develop the bioeconomy as the basis of a new global and integrated health system, pulling together conservation, resource economics, and preventive and curative medicine
Scientists and Professionals in the following fields: biology, medicine, statistics, epidemiology, and economics
PART 1 How and why all this had an origin
1. The origins of infections
2. Meaning and dynamics of epidemics
PART 2 The COVID-19 crisis management: not an easy task!
3. How did we manage the COVID-19 pandemic?
4. How did we contain the virus: contact tracing, social distancing, and vaccines
PART 3 The impact of COVID-19 on the economic system
5. Trade-offs and political economy during pandemics
6. COVID-19 macroeconomics: are we using the right toolbox?
7. The effects on the economic systems
8. The effects on healthcare systems and health status
PART 4 The policy analysis
9. What did we learn after more than 6 million deaths?
10. Bioeconomy, biodiversity, and the human footprint
PART 5 The solutions
11. How to manage the risk of new pandemics
12. Epilog
1. The origins of infections
2. Meaning and dynamics of epidemics
PART 2 The COVID-19 crisis management: not an easy task!
3. How did we manage the COVID-19 pandemic?
4. How did we contain the virus: contact tracing, social distancing, and vaccines
PART 3 The impact of COVID-19 on the economic system
5. Trade-offs and political economy during pandemics
6. COVID-19 macroeconomics: are we using the right toolbox?
7. The effects on the economic systems
8. The effects on healthcare systems and health status
PART 4 The policy analysis
9. What did we learn after more than 6 million deaths?
10. Bioeconomy, biodiversity, and the human footprint
PART 5 The solutions
11. How to manage the risk of new pandemics
12. Epilog
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 9, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Vincenzo Atella
Vincenzo Atella is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he teaches courses in Macroeconomics and Applied Health Economics at graduate and post graduate level. He is also adjunct associate of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University where he has been visiting professor several times, Scientific Director of the Farmafactoring Foundation, and past President of the Italian Health Economic Association (AIES). He has coordinated several European projects and received financial support by the European Science Foundation. His research activity focuses on applied economics with special emphasis in the health care sector. The results of his research activity have been published on several international refereed journals as well books.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, ItalyPS
Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo
Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo, Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, is Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Economics Foundation at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, President of the Italian Association of Development Economists, and of the Villa Mondragone Development Association, and Chairman of OpenEconomics, a university spin off focusing on cost benefit analysis and policy impact evaluation. He has widely published on a variety of topics on economic development. Formerly a holder of several academic and government positions, he is presently advising the World Bank and other international institutions on the evaluation of policies of sustainable development.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Fellow and Board Member, Economics Foundation, University of Rome Tor Vergata, ItalyRead The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge on ScienceDirect