The Inequality of COVID-19: Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions

Eric E. Otenyo, Lisa J. Hardy

ISBN 10: 0323998674 / ISBN 13: 9780323998673

Published by Academic Press 2021-11-12, 2021

Seller Inventory # 6666-GRD-9780323998673

Synopsis:

The Inequality of COVID-19: Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions is an extraordinary interdisciplinary effort offering insights needed to underscore the problems of disjointed communications during a global pandemic. The authors explore the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and other immediate 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 are 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. This realization is, an important area to explore, and the study establishes an initial attempt to make sense of how, and under what circumstances marginalized groups can suffer most from global pandemics. This study offers opportunities for necessary investigations of multiple layers of inequality, which can lead to future policy efforts to support strength and healing for all during global crisis like COVID-19. Explores the 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...

About the Authors: 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.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Inequality of COVID-19: Immediate Health...
Publisher: Academic Press 2021-11-12
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New