/spgh/taxonomy/term/422/all en /spgh/channels/news/understanding-covid-19-burden-tvo-september-29-2021-333864 <p>Dr. Frank Elgar, Professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and at the Department of Psychiatry spoke with <em>TVO's The Agenda.</em></p> <p style="margin-left:40px"><em>"</em><span>We quickly learned from the onset of the pandemic that people in lower-income socioeconomic groups were taking on a greater burden, with risk of exposure and the greater incidences of COVID-19 deaths. Frank Elgar, a professor at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº and Canada Research Chair in Social Inequality in Child Health, has uncovered the reasons why income equality leads to poorer health outcomes."</span></p> Fri, 01 Oct 2021 21:52:05 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 978 at /spgh