Although international trade has always been important to ensuring health and combating communicable diseases, it has …

expenditures in health sector and a lower exposure of population to air pollution, regardless a higher percentage of population …

, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll remains highly concentrated in high-income countries. Developing …

Objectives: COVID-19 mortality rates differ across countries. We aimed to construct a model that predicts mortality … worldwide, by including only country-level socioeconomic and health system indicators and excluding variables related to short …-term measures for pandemic management. Methods: COVID-19 mortality data was collected from Johns Hopkins University resource center …

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 …