Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?

Black, D, Bates, G, Gibson, A, Hatleskog, E, Fichera, E, Hatchard, J, Hasan, MN ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9307-1769, Rosenberg, G, Larkin, C, Brierley, R, Kidger, J, Bondy, K, Hickman, M, Pain, K, Hicks, B, Scally, G, Verma, A, Carhart, N, Pilkington, P, Hunt, A and Ireland, P, 2021. Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk? Cities and Health, 5 (S1), S93-S96. ISSN 2374-8834

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Abstract

For over a decade, pandemics have been on the UK National Risk Register as both the likeliest and most severe of threats. Non-infectious ‘lifestyle’ diseases were already crippling our healthcare services and our economy. COVID-19 has exposed two critical vulnerabilities: firstly, the UK’s failure to adequately assess and communicate the severity of non-communicable disease; secondly, the health inequalities across our society, due not least to the poor quality of our urban environments. This suggests a potentially disastrous lack of preventative action and risk management more generally, notably with regards to the existential risks from the climate and ecological crises.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Cities and Health
Creators:	Black, D., Bates, G., Gibson, A., Hatleskog, E., Fichera, E., Hatchard, J., Hasan, M.N., Rosenberg, G., Larkin, C., Brierley, R., Kidger, J., Bondy, K., Hickman, M., Pain, K., Hicks, B., Scally, G., Verma, A., Carhart, N., Pilkington, P., Hunt, A. and Ireland, P.
Publisher:	Routledge
Date:	21 July 2021
Volume:	5
Number:	S1
ISSN:	2374-8834
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480 DOI 2218144 Other
Rights:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	18 Sep 2024 09:52
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 09:52
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52245

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