, excess mortality, and widening inequality. On the basis of an analysis of the health crisis in the capitalist world, the …Based on a class analysis, the article shows the failure of the commercialized health care system in the Global North … and South to address the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the article investigates the dynamics, consequences, and …

World Health Organization (WHO) membership/observership and access to other arms of the United Nations (UN); traumatic … precautionary approach based on three major factors: Taiwan’s decades-long exclusion from the international health community without … constitutional democracy survives a public health emergency with the unprecedented magnitude of COVID-19. The urgency to take …

-19 pandemic. The focus is on a global sample of 150 countries divided into four main regions, namely: Africa, Asia …-Pacific and the Middle East, America and Europe. The study develops a health vulnerability index (HVI) and leverages on an … that have robustly fought the pandemic are those in the 'low HVI-high ERI' quadrant and to a less extent, countries in the …

this is more than a health crisis. It is human, economic and social crisis. The only way is to begin strategizing about the …

This study explores the contrasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries in Australia. Considering … cases. Several actions from the Australian government to control the pandemic are relatively ineffective in boosting the … overall financial market; however, some positive interactions are captured in five sectors of industrials, health care, metals …

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether … March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … supporting an NGO engaged in advocacy for health-sector regulation. By comparing responses of subjects surveyed before and after …

trillion to date. While vaccines were developed and deployed with unprecedented speed, pre-pandemic investments could have …The Covid-19 pandemic is estimated to have caused over 7 million deaths and reduced economic output by over $13 …, spending $60 billion up front to expand production capacity for vaccines and supply-chain inputs and $5 billion every year …