Sustainable Health and the Covid-19 Crisis

<p>This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals communities and governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking the Danish context as a starting point it extrapolates to discuss the international relevance of a range of issues.</p><p>The book contains 4 parts:</p><ul> <li>Part 1 looks at the societal reactions to COVID-19 discussing issues around health communication legitimacy ethics and bio-politics</li> <li>Part 2 approaches the health and well-being of specific groups during the crisis</li> <li>Part 3 assesses how the crisis stimulated sustainable solutions to key problems from digital methods for delivery of healthcare to changes to the food supply chain</li> <li>Part 4 looks broadly at how historical developments in the study of epidemiology and current scientific perspectives enable the understanding and to some extent management of the COVID-19 pandemic</li> </ul><p>With contributions from scholars across the social sciences health sciences and humanities each chapter provides not only insight into a particular issue but also the theories and scientific methods applied to understand and overcome the COVID-19 crisis. It will be important reading for both scholars and policy makers informing an appropriate response to future health crises.</p>