Covid-19 Pandemic

Christian Aspalter is the author/editor of over 25 books in Social Policy, including Health Policy. He is one of the leading theorists in social policy, and a leading comparative Health and Social Policy scholar. He is the author of Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis, plus the editor of Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia, Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy, The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems (First and Second Editions), and co-editor of Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia, Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia, and Active Aging in Asia.  His forthcoming books include e.g. Super Inequality: Theoretical Essays in Economics and Social Policy; and the Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy.

• Introductory and Overarching Theory Part.- Introduction.- The Global Inequality Explosion Caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Theme Chapters on Social Problems Raised by the Pandemic.- Socio-Economic and Geographic Inequality of Effects of the Pandemic.- Failure of Government Response to Ethnic Minorities: The Case of Australian Aboriginal Communities.- Aging and Long-Term Care Problems During the Pandemic.- Economic Problems Caused by the Pandemic—The Case of a Developing Country: India.- Comparing Social Policy Responses Between Separate Crises: Taking the Case of Indonesia.- Country Case Study Chapters on the Pandemic Itself (With an Additional Focal Point One Particular Social Problem).- The Pandemic in the United Kingdom: With Special Reference to Rising Mental Health Problems.- The Pandemic in the United States: With Special Reference to Rising ‘Deaths of Despair’.- The Pandemic in Australia: With Special Reference to Suicide in Aboriginal Communities.- The Pandemic in Mainland China: With Special Reference to Rising Relative Poverty.- The Pandemic in Taiwan: With Special Reference to Elderly People’s Problems.- The Pandemic in Thailand: With Special Reference to Informal Workers’ Problems.- The Pandemic in Brazil: With Special Reference to Unemployment.- The Pandemic in Spain: With Special Reference to Child Depriviation.- The Pandemic in Italy: With Special Reference to Women’s and Families’ Conditions.- The Pandemic in Greece: With Special Reference to Women’s Employment.- The Pandemic in Austria: With Special Reference to Migrant Care Workers’ Problems.- Concluding Part.- Conclusions.