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The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge

  • 1st Edition - November 7, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Vincenzo Atella, Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo
  • Language: English

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Scientists and Professionals in the following fields: biology, medicine, statistics, epidemiology, and economics

Table of contents

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

Review quotes

"...delivers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the COVID-19 pandemic, [and] aims to illuminate pre-pandemic planning, progression of the pandemic, and what a post-COVID-19 future looks like, approaching the COVID-19 pandemic from a social, economic, and health standpoint. It takes a wide view of the pandemic, answering questions from a complex, multifaceted perspective of health, climate change, population trends, pollution, economics, finance, and global relations....The book is divided into five parts across 12 chapters [which] covers the global health challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on economic disruptions and health management....This book tactfully shares thoughtful analysis and extensive research on the topic of COVID-19 and subsequent disruptions from the pandemic, with comprehensively indexed and clearly printed figures and tables."—©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Kathryn A Ross, BS, MS (Haverford College)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 9, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

VA

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, Italy

PS

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, Italy

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