...Cati Coe Around the world, societies are aging. Most governments have not prepared well for this demographic change, which requires a recalibration of existing social support programs like state pension and health care systems. Piecemeal state solutions have generated a reliance on migrant workers...

... the ability of most African states to contain the contagion led to predictions of a viral tsunami on the continent. Such dire warnings were based on the assumption that poverty, underdevelopment, corruption, and underfunded and poorly maintained health care systems would allow the virus to overwhelm...

... in return for financial support from European institutions. Austerity left their economies and health care systems weakened when the pandemic arrived. Yet they were able to avoid another surge in unemployment, showing that some lessons were learned from the financial crisis. © 2023 by The Regents...

.... [email protected] © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Cuba COVID-19 pandemic health care protests legitimacy authoritarianism In 2016, Cuba’s prospects looked bright. Relations between the United States and Cuba had been formally reestablished...

... to the company’s contract with HHS to track COVID-19 infections and deaths. As this secretive security technology firm quickly embeds itself into the “health care space,” patient and health privacy advocates continue to ask exactly what data Palantir has collected through its contact-tracing product. How broad...

... residents’ committees are grassroots self-governance organizations, and technically are not part of the government. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 COVID-19 pandemic mobility transportation health care governance China The COVID-19 pandemic has turned...

... lower? And how can we contain those consequences and help people recover from them going forward? © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 COVID-19 pandemic global health health care vaccines inequality ethics “To do better with the next pandemic, as well...

... of the Swiss political system of direct democracy to spur debate on these issues in the public sphere. Between 2012 and 2014, referendums in some Swiss cantons forced health care institutions to authorize assisted suicide within their walls. The second strategy consisted of the association implementing...

... rights health care law Japan South Korea The rights of people with disabilities are increasingly recognized in Japan and South Korea, East Asia’s main industrialized democracies. In 2008, South Korea enacted unprecedented legislation to prohibit disability-based discrimination and ratified...

... into poverty. The coronavirus pandemic threatens to send tens of millions of people around the world below the poverty line. Some countries are especially unprepared to protect their people from health and economic shocks. They should focus on reforms to improve access to health care, secure work...

... by scientific advice—and proved much less effective. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 COVID-19 pandemic Germany United Kingdom science health care governance A scientific worldview and the practice of democratic politics have, for at least two centuries, been...

... applause for medical professionals while frontline health care workers and their patients were getting sick and dying of COVID-19, Primiano and other New York City nurses took to the streets and social media to protest that their lives were being sacrificed to the political interests of the White House...

...Deborah Carr The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on the lives of older adults, intensifying long-standing challenges in the US health care system. Persistent health and mortality disparities on the basis of race and socioeconomic status, staffing shortages and insufficient financial...