As part of the SolPan study at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine (IGEM) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), one question addressed socioeconomic inequalities in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic. In January 2022, the researchers around Amelia Fiske published their results in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

In qualitative interviews with over 480 subjects from six European countries, they found that health- and economic-related inequalities reinforce each other, creating a "second pandemic" of non-health harms associated with the pandemic.

For a more detailed description of the study results, please see here.

Amelia Fiske, Ilaria Galasso, Johanna Eichinger, Stuart McLennan, Isabella Radhuber, Bettina Zimmermann, and Barbara Prainsack. 2021. the second pandemic: examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 292, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114634