... 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. In 2021...

.... bastian_hope@wheatoncollege.edu © 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...

... and citizens. © 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 the world into a natural laboratory for mobility regulation. Governments across the world, whether democratic...

... and interdependency of globalization, ethics must be incorporated in global health policy as a primary consideration, not an afterthought. © 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...

... 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 by itself, without any input from expert advisory panels, an extension...

... rules and formal rights, more enforcement mechanisms like fines, and better recourse to judicial or other dispute resolution bodies. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 disability rights health care law Japan South Korea This is the first in a series of essays...

... 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...

... and keep everyone safe. COVID-19 pandemic Germany United Kingdom science health care governance © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 If mapping the pathogen’s genetic structure depended on scientific knowledge, mapping the contagion called for skills of a more...

... and treatment from staff and detainees alike. The administration’s actions have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, putting political profit over the lives of elderly Black patients denied ventilators or the frontline health care workers dying for lack of protection from the virus...

...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...