The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge

Vincenzo Atella is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he teaches courses in Macroeconomics and Applied Health Economics at graduate and post graduate level. He is also adjunct associate of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University where he has been visiting professor several times, Scientific Director of the Farmafactoring Foundation, and past President of the Italian Health Economic Association (AIES). He has coordinated several European projects and received financial support by the European Science Foundation. His research activity focuses on applied economics with special emphasis in the health care sector. The results of his research activity have been published on several international refereed journals as well books. Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo, Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, is Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Economics Foundation at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, President of the Italian Association of Development Economists, and of the Villa Mondragone Development Association, and Chairman of OpenEconomics, a university spin off focusing on cost benefit analysis and policy impact evaluation. He has widely published on a variety of topics on economic development. Formerly a holder of several academic and government positions, he is presently advising the World Bank and other international institutions on the evaluation of policies of sustainable development.

"...delivers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the COVID-19 pandemic, [and] aims to illuminate pre-pandemic planning, progression of the pandemic, and what a post-COVID-19 future looks like, approaching the COVID-19 pandemic from a social, economic, and health standpoint. It takes a wide view of the pandemic, answering questions from a complex, multifaceted perspective of health, climate change, population trends, pollution, economics, finance, and global relations.... The book is divided into five parts across 12 chapters [which] covers the global health challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on economic disruptions and health management.... This book tactfully shares thoughtful analysis and extensive research on the topic of COVID-19 and subsequent disruptions from the pandemic, with comprehensively indexed and clearly printed figures and tables." --©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Kathryn A Ross, BS, MS (Haverford College)

• PART 1 How and why all this had an origin1. The origins of infections2. Meaning and dynamics of epidemicsPART 2 The COVID-19 crisis management: not an easy task!3. How did we manage the COVID-19 pandemic?4. How did we contain the virus: contact tracing, social distancing, and vaccinesPART 3 The impact of COVID-19 on the economic system5. Trade-offs and political economy during pandemics6. COVID-19 macroeconomics: are we using the right toolbox?7. The effects on the economic systems8. The effects on healthcare systems and health statusPART 4 The policy analysis9. What did we learn after more than 6 million deaths?10. Bioeconomy, biodiversity, and the human footprintPART 5 The solutions11. How to manage the risk of new pandemics12. Epilogics 12. Epilog