COVID-19 in working-class neighborhoods of two Argentine cities.
Andrea MastrangeloSilvia HirschFlavia DemontePublished in: Ciencia & saude coletiva (2022)
This paper presents a synchronic analysis of the diseases during the emergence of COVID-19, the management and impact of the lockdown, and how the media narrated these events in working-class neighborhoods of the metropolitan areas of Buenos Aires and Gran Resistencia from March to November 2020. We resorted to quantitative methods on secondary sources to describe poverty and syndemics and conducted week-by-week ethnographic and media research on 38 neighborhoods with water shortages and critical overcrowding. As a result, COVID-19 syndemically emerged with dengue, measles, and tuberculosis, and the preventive measures exacerbated institutional and gender violence, the Werther effect, and the neglect of other illnesses. Ethnography revealed syndemics with noncommunicable diseases and the influence of structural violence on health. The media analysis shows interest in the districts associated with the fear of contagion, but they disappear from the media agenda once dispelled.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- mental health
- healthcare
- public health
- zika virus
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- high resolution
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- clinical trial
- drinking water
- health information
- single cell
- social media
- intimate partner violence
- human immunodeficiency virus
- placebo controlled
- hiv infected
- study protocol
- double blind