Discrimination and Social Exclusion in the Outbreak of COVID-19

Discrimination and Social Exclusion in the Outbreak of COVID-19

Jun He, Leshui He, Wen Zhou, Xuanhua Nie, Ming He

This paper is aimed to document the observed social exclusion and discrimination in the outbreak of COVID-19 across the world and inside of China. Discrimination and social exclusion has occurred in various forms, while 25.11% of respondents overseas experienced discrimination in the breakout of COVID-19, and 90% of respondents inside of China exhibited discriminatory attitudes. The discrimination and social exclusion also lead to a range of damaging social outcomes. Thus, this is an urgent call for the inclusiveness in policy and media in the face of this public health emergency.

2020

discrimination, Social exclusion, coronavirus

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17082933

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

MDPI AG

Medicine

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