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

Daniel Black; Geoffrey Bates; Andy J Gibson; Eli Hatleskog; Eleonora Fichera; Jenny L Hatchard; Hasan Md Nazmul; Ges Rosenberg; Charles Larkin; Rachel C M Brierley; Judi L Kidger; Krista Bondy; Matt  Hickman; Kathy Pain; Ben J Hicks; Gabriel J Scally; Arpana Verma; Neil J Carhart; Paul Pilkington; Alistair Hunt; Paddy Ireland

doi:10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480

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

Daniel Black^*, Geoffrey Bates, Andy J Gibson, Eli Hatleskog, Eleonora Fichera, Jenny L Hatchard, Hasan Md Nazmul, Ges Rosenberg, Charles Larkin, Rachel C M Brierley, Judi L Kidger, Krista Bondy, Matt Hickman, Kathy Pain, Ben J Hicks, Gabriel J Scally, Arpana Verma, Neil J Carhart, Paul Pilkington, Alistair HuntPaddy Ireland

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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.

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Journal	Cities & Health
Early online date	22 Sept 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 22 Sept 2020

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Black, D., Bates, G., Gibson, A. J., Hatleskog, E., Fichera, E., Hatchard, J. L., Md Nazmul, H., Rosenberg, G., Larkin, C., Brierley, R. C. M., Kidger, J. L., Bondy, K., Hickman, M., Pain, K., Hicks, B. J., Scally, G. J., Verma, A., Carhart, N. J., Pilkington, P., ... Ireland, P. (2020). Pandemics, vulnerability and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk? Cities & Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480

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