Act (ACA), former President Obama's signature health insurance law. His very first executive order, signed within hours of … this fundamental policy shift affect the U.S. health care and health insurance systems? Those questions were explored by a … panel of health and policy experts at the Employee Benefit Research Institute's 79th policy forum held in Washington, DC …

, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …

The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …

Background With the exception of key 'proven successes' in global health, the current regime of global health … international cooperation, which fails to provide sufficient justification for an obligation to assist in meeting the health needs … develops select components of an alternative model of shared health governance (SHG), which aims to provide a 'road map …

In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its … research. Such opportunities are ample and diverse, ranging from frailty and financial abuse to health care arrangements in the …

.This paper examines the implications of this for global health efforts and recommends a tailored middle-income strategy for … global health funders. The paper describes trends in the global distribution of poverty, preventable infectious diseases, and … health aid response to date; revisits the rationale for health aid through agencies like GAVI and the Global Fund; and …

This paper discusses shifts in development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, analyses the nature of the current … an ‘essential functions’ framework, which provides a function-based taxonomy for global collective action in health, and … questions about the future balance of essential functions of global health. …

socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …