The Inequality of COVID-19
Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions
- 1st Edition - October 14, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Eric E. Otenyo, Lisa J. Hardy
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 8 6 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 9 3 7 - 3
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Request a sales quoteThe Inequality of COVID-19: Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions explores the use of information, communication technologies (ICTs) and longer-term guidelines, directives and general policy initiatives. The cases document implications of the failure of various governments to establish robust policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in a sample of advanced and low-income countries. Because the global institutions charged with managing the COVID-19 crisis did not work in harmony, the results have been devastating. The four Indigenous communities selected were the Navajo of the southwest United States, Siddi people in India, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia and the Maasai in East Africa.
Although these are all diverse communities, spread across different continents, their base economic oppression and survival from colonial violence is a common denominator in hypothesizing the public health management outcomes. However, the research reveals that national leadership and other incoherent pandemic mitigation policies account for a significant amount of the devastation caused in these communities.
- Explores examples of pandemic mitigation practices in indigenous communities
- Provides case studies of importance of ICTs in health care in 21st century pandemic management protocols
- Presents real policy data collected from different continents from early days through the first year of the global pandemic
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Images of war
- Indigenous communities and COVID-19
- Critical indigenous theory
- Unequal impacts
- The research and its methodologies
- Foci and location
- Four cases
- Chapter 2. Understanding layered dimensions of COVID-19
- Public Health Emergency
- National governments and Indigenous communities: duplicity and layered communication channels
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. COVID-19 policy responses and feedback in Navajo country
- ICT: shrinking the digital divide
- COVID-19 stories and government action
- Communications and decisions made
- Further actions and reactions
- Reactions: volunteer workers during COVID-19 lockdowns
- Compassion from San Francisco
- Navajo politics and budgeting priorities
- Saving lives and healing
- COVID-19 and tele-mourning
- Messaging challenges
- COVID-19 patients write and speak
- Signs of hope and reopening plans
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Internal and external Maasai communications and management of COVID-19
- Part I: Situation in Kenya's Maasai universe
- Part II: The other story: Tanzania's COVID-19 policies and reactions
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in India's Siddi zones
- Governing by scheduling and othering people
- Poverty and policy
- COVID-19 and Indian federalism
- Ecology of ICTs and other challenges
- Communication and messaging
- Communication in different Siddi groups
- International and nationwide messages
- Citizen reactions and policy feedback
- Reaction in urban settings
- Stigmatization beyond caste
- Economic self-reliance and bureaucratic corruption
- Feedback: Communicating Grievance and NGO-driven self-reliance efforts
- Reactions: use of traditional religious beliefs and reliance on patron Saint Bava Gor
- COVID-19 and India's health-care innovations
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. COVID-19 communication and Indigenous Australians
- Governance framework and public health policy
- How did it go?
- Testing and tracing
- The summer months
- Realities of COVID-19 prevention initiatives and solutions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Viral misinformation
- Information overload
- Ecosystem of ICTs and other lingering challenges
- Digital divide concerns
- Policy feedback: reactive communication and justice messaging
- Health communication on video clips
- What we learned
- Social trauma
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. An overview of pandemic response
- Global health systems and COVID-19 preparedness
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Unequal virus beyond 2020: paths forward
- Social sciences learning and pandemics
- Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 14, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 274
- No. of pages (eBook): 274
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323998673
- eBook ISBN: 9780323999373
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Eric E. Otenyo
Dr. Eric Edwin Otenyo PhD is professor of Public Administration at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona. His MPA is from Syracuse University and PhD from Miami University, Oxford Ohio. He has taught advanced courses in public administration and policy and served as MPA program advisor in the department of Politics and International Affairs at the same university. He previously taught at the University of Nairobi and at Illinois State University. His publications include numerous articles in peer -reviewed journals, conference papers, book chapters on policy and governance issues, and the following books: Comparative Public Administration: The Essential Readings and E-Government: The Use of Information and Communication.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USALH
Lisa J. Hardy
Dr. Lisa Jane Hardy PhD is Associate professor of Medical Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. She has an MA degree in Applied Anthropology from Northern Arizona University, MA and PhD in Anthropology from Temple University. She is the current editor of Practicing Anthropology; a journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology and Director of the Social Science Community Engagement Lab. Dr. Hardy has published widely in the field of medical anthropology. Her work appears in prestigious journals including Health Promotions Practice, Medical Anthropology, American Journal of Public Health, Qualitative Research, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Cancer Health Disparities. She teaches various interdisciplinary courses and has research interests in social justice through medical anthropology, policy and systems change, health equity and community engaged research. Dr. Hardy has led rapid response research on the coronavirus pandemic and published several articles on the virus control efforts including several news articles related to Indigenous societies.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USARead The Inequality of COVID-19 on ScienceDirect