The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three … navigate long-awaited health policy transformation in areas that help us better prepare for the next pandemic. … key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of …

governments should bear the cost of the expected increased industry obsolescence determined by a temporary patent waiver; this … includes public patent-buy-outs and regulated public-private R&D partnerships. …

emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the … population groups. Our review suggests that vulnerable workers were at more health risks than the general population. The …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … public health or medicine. To investigate the effects of officials' professionalism on their response to and performance in … fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, we collect information from the résumés of government and Party officials in 294 Chinese cities …

assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first … wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services … care during the first wave of the pandemic. There is evidence of pro-rich inequities in access to GP consultations …

This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home … environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from … home negatively affects the mental health of workers, with greater effects on women and those who are primarily responsible …

Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers …This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South …

in general and during the pandemic and on physical and mental health. We conclude with a description of what WFH may look …The COVID pandemic that took the world economy by surprise at the beginning of 2020 brought many drastic changes to the … during the first part of the pandemic. We also review the results of the literature on two important dimensions of inequality …