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Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
While the focus has been on containing 'hot spots' of COVID-19 outbreaks, understanding why some areas have few or no cases could point the way to a staged reopening that starts with these areas.
Not everyone has a job they can do from home. Mapping the patterns of occupations across Melbourne's suburbs against COVID-19 cases strongly suggests why some parts of the city are more vulnerable.
Racism – and the chronic stress it causes – leads to poor health among African Americans. It may change the way genes are expressed, leading to increased levels of dangerous stress hormones.
Frustration at intergenerational inequity captures the views of many contemporary education worker activists and environmentalists alike.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Deputy Director (Acting) Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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PhD Candidate in Psychology, Boston College
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Associate Dean and Director of Education, Counseling and Leadership, Bradley University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Boston College
