Social activities, basic services and support to vulnerable groups: responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: chapter 5.1.3: interim country report
OUTPUT TYPE: Research report- client
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): H.Bhorat, E.Ubomba-Jaswa, T.Kohler, T.Sodi, C.Vogel, G.Maree, C.Ndinda, P.Adebayo, X.Mbhenyane, S.Drimie
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11949
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16015
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16015
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): H.Bhorat, E.Ubomba-Jaswa, T.Kohler, T.Sodi, C.Vogel, G.Maree, C.Ndinda, P.Adebayo, X.Mbhenyane, S.Drimie
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11949
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16015
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16015
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
Vulnerability is a multifaceted dilemma, influenced by complex social, economic and environmental processes. This chapter reviews vulnerabilities that existed among people in South Africa before the Covid-19 pandemic and assesses the extent to which the pandemic exacerbated these vulnerabilities. It discusses the socio-economic context of vulnerable and marginalised groups and describes the available social protection measures. It then turns to peoples basic needs and the way these were affected by the pandemic. Particular attention is paid to refugees and migrants, an especially vulnerable group largely excluded from government support. This chapter finds that Covid-19 has exposed and broadened vulnerabilities, increasing several risk factors, including access to water, healthcare and food. These impacts have been felt most strongly by women, children, elderly and disabled people, as well as refugees and migrants. Overall, though, it is clear that more nuanced data across a range of scales is needed in order to accurately assess the impact of Covid-19 on the governments social activities and basic services.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Vulnerable but overlooked: the Covid-19 vaccine plight of people with disabilities in South Africa
- South Africa Covid-19 report 2 on vulnerability
- Letter to the editor: COVID-19 and Tuberculosis in South Africa: a dangerous combination
- Projecting the likely impact of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security in South Africa
- Water in the time of COVID-19
- Aligning knowledge, skills and capabilities across South Africa's health innovation system to combat COVID-19
- Tuberculosis in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
- Viral (un)freedom in the area of COVID-19: it is all about trust
- Not a 'skop, skiet en donner' moment: defence force deployment in the time of COVID-19
- Exploiting COVID-19 to spread hatred and fear: South Africa is vulnerable
- Living through global trauma: why South Africa needs a public mental-health response to COVID-19
- SA's hand hygiene strategy: the COVID-19 curve ball
- COVID-19: lessons in remote learning from China and Europe
- Running remote seminars in a time of COVID-19
- The COVID-19 impact on sexual- and reproductive-health rights and gender based violence
- Macroeconomic stimulus packages and inequality in developing countries: lessons from the 2007-2009 crisis for South Africa
- The need for universal health care: what COVID-19 may teach us
- Beyond a bio-medical fix: the value of 'people's science'
- Rural retreat: allowing people to return home during lockdown could turn a tide
- Public must develop safe death rites