While mental health issues often hijack public health debates, a comprehensive analysis describing the state of global … mental health is missing from the economics literature. This paper uses extensive country-level panel data for 170 countries … spanning between 1990 and 2015 and provides new evidence on the trends and correlates of mental health. Contrary to popular …

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 …

Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. Our account … impulses that animate public health: to advance human well-being by improving health and to do so particularly by focusing on … controversies in the field, and it provides examples of the kinds of policies that public health agencies guided by a robust …

-Pacific and the Middle East, America and Europe. The study develops a health vulnerability index (HVI) and leverages on an …

today’s global health challenges. Given the importance of global health cooperation, few would dispute that a stronger, more …. Stakeholders demand clarity on how their resources will achieve improved health outcomes, as they shift towards results … they effectively translate into better health outcomes. (3) Exercise Closer Oversight of Regions. WHO headquarters should …

health burdens. Ethical principles of public health are distinguishable from principles applied in modern bioethics … pubic health ethics applies at the population-based or macroethical level. Resolution of issues, for instance of consent to … healthcare interventions and preservation of privacy, is different from public health practice in clinical medicine. Public …

, 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 global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no … evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of … preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The aim of this study was to examine the contributions of health systems …

Global health scholarship has failed to adequately consider the “BRIC” cluster of nations - Brazil, Russia, India and … China - particularly in the aggregate. An article search with the keywords “BRIC” and “public health” yields just one … publication. But these countries have a unique role to play in the global health enterprise by addressing global health problems …