Time to reopen schools: COVID-19, health disparity and education
Author(s) -
Jan Gresil Kahambing
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdab205
Subject(s) - pandemic , dilemma , covid-19 , inequality , harm , assertion , position (finance) , public health , political science , economic growth , medicine , virology , disease , economics , nursing , law , computer science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , pathology , finance , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language , philosophy , epistemology
Weighing the dilemma of reopening schools during the pandemic is no longer a matter of self-determination but harm. Coronavirus disease 2019 has shown gross health inequality and, by extension, the inequality of society per se. The assertion that ‘education continues despite the pandemic’ using access to technological means is a privileged position.
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