The paper identifies important concerns as they arise in different areas, focusing mainly on the difficulties encountered by various sectors in accessing societal resources like education, housing, employment and fair wage, and economic aid. The difficulties often lie in terms of geographic, economic and cultural access.16 Whitehead, & Dahlgren, op. cit. note 11.
The resources referred to are not readily recognized by non‐medical people as having a huge impact on health although they have long been accepted as social determinants of vulnerability to diseases.17 Wilkinson, R., & Marmot, M. (Eds.). (2003). Social Determinants of Health: the Solid Facts 2nd Ed. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. Retrieved August 15, 2020, from https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/108082
, 18 Cabral, E.I. (2016, April‐June). The Philippine Health Agenda for 2016 to 2022. Philippine Journal of Internal Medicine. 54(2). Retrieved August 15, 2020, from https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjF6NfbvqTrAhUEGaYKHXg‐Df8QFjABegQIChAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcp.org.ph%2Ffiles%2FPJIM%2520Vol54%2520No2%2FThe_Philippine_Health_Agenda_2016_to_2022.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2KRJZMVvrXpyAaJRIzccYS
It is perhaps for this reason that the lack – or unfair allocation – of pertinent resources has been insufficiently addressed or pushed down the priority order in government decision‐making. This paper examines an extensive inventory of reported experiences and explores their consequences and ethical implications as they arise from the inequities. It also investigates the interconnected and overlapping health, educational, and cultural fronts in the development of the pandemic and the impact that these have on existing social and economic inequities.