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Article

The Muslim Gaze and the COVID-19 Syndemic

by
Hina Javaid Shahid
1,2,* and
Sufyan Abid Dogra
3
1
Muslim Doctors Association, London E16 2DQ, UK
2
Allied Health Professionals CIC, Suffolk IP23 7BH, UK
3
Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford BD9 6RJ, UK
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Religions 2022, 13(9), 780; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090780
Submission received: 15 January 2022 / Revised: 3 August 2022 / Accepted: 8 August 2022 / Published: 25 August 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Muslims and COVID-19: Everyday Impacts, Experiences and Responses)

Abstract

COVID-19 has replicated and intensified pre-existing health inequities by creating a vicious syndemic that brings together concurrent biological, psychosocial and structural epidemics with synergistic interactions that reinforce unequal outcomes. In the UK, the Muslim community has been disproportionately impacted by excess morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. This article uses a transdisplinary lens in the context of COVID-19 to analyse the role of Islamophobia as a fundamental driver of health inequities in Britain’s Muslim community. It highlights multilevel policy reforms and recommendations that centre community empowerment, social justice and cultural humility to close the gap and achieve justice and good health for all.
Keywords: public health; health inequalities; Muslims; Islamophobia public health; health inequalities; Muslims; Islamophobia

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Shahid, H.J.; Dogra, S.A. The Muslim Gaze and the COVID-19 Syndemic. Religions 2022, 13, 780. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090780

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Shahid HJ, Dogra SA. The Muslim Gaze and the COVID-19 Syndemic. Religions. 2022; 13(9):780. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090780

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Shahid, Hina Javaid, and Sufyan Abid Dogra. 2022. "The Muslim Gaze and the COVID-19 Syndemic" Religions 13, no. 9: 780. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090780

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Shahid, H. J., & Dogra, S. A. (2022). The Muslim Gaze and the COVID-19 Syndemic. Religions, 13(9), 780. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090780

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