Abstract:

The Black Death and Spanish Flu, which led to significant changes in economic systems in the world history of epidemics, has made long-term effects on social and economic structure. Long-term structural changes are occurred in the postepidemic periods just as happened in the post-crisis periods. Epidemics have the potential of creative destruction just as economic crisis. The developments that have taken place during the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to create a new division of labor in World economy in the post-COVID19 era. In the post-COVID-19 era, it is possible that the problem of providing the equal access to health care as a result of the destruction ensued by pandemic comes to the agenda again. This study aims to discuss the political economy of the combating the pandemic. In the study, the economic policies in different countries are analyzed in the context of the right to health including equal access to health care services, prevention of unemployment and poverty. In this context, packages of economic measures implemented in different countries and, healthcare systems in these countries are examined in the combat the pandemic. In this study, it is analyzed that what extent countries meet social requests regarding the right to health in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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