Women are most affected by pandemics - lessons from past outbreaks
Wenham, Clare
; Smith, Julia; Davies, Sara E.; Feng, Huiyun; Grépin, Karen A.; Harman, Sophie; Herten-Crabb, Asha
; and Morgan, Rosemary
(2020)
Women are most affected by pandemics - lessons from past outbreaks
Nature, 583 (7815).
pp. 194-198.
ISSN 0028-0836
The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men. Governments need to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | diseases,policy,society,coronavirus,Covid-19,Sex Offenses/statistics & numerical data,Humans,Pandemics/economics,Male,Vulnerable Populations,Women's Health/statistics & numerical data,Zika Virus Infection/epidemiology,Socioeconomic Factors,Coronavirus Infections/economics,Gender Identity,Domestic Violence/prevention & control,Internationality,Female,Abortion, Induced/statistics & numerical data,Reproductive Health/statistics & numerical data,Pneumonia, Viral/economics |
| Departments |
Health Policy LSE Health |
| DOI | 10.1038/d41586-020-02006-z |
| Date Deposited | 29 Jul 2020 13:57 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105820 |
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- Wenham, Clare
- Smith, Julia
- Davies, Sara E.
- Feng, Huiyun
- Grépin, Karen A.
- Harman, Sophie
- Herten-Crabb, Asha
- Morgan, Rosemary
- HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
- RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
- HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02006-z (Publisher)
- https://www.lse.ac.uk/health-policy/people/dr-clare-wenham (Author)
- https://www.nature.com/ (Official URL)
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1251-8109