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Strengthening health systems to address inequities in COVID-19 vaccine access in the Asia-Pacific region

Ulep, Valerie Gilbert - 2022

The economic and health recovery of countries in the Asia-Pacific region from the pandemic is hinged on the rapid and … an issue, health system challenges, particularly in terms of financing, service delivery, human resources, regulatory … paper revolve around the importance of strengthening the health system to enable the equitable allocation and distribution …

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Regulators Could Allow Early Use of COVID-19 Vaccine or Treatment

Yeoh, Ben - 2020

Quickly developed therapeutic, prophylactic, and vaccine treatments will be essential to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard regulatory and development protocols typically yield drug development in 6 to 11 years. However, experimental vaccines and prophylactics against COVID-19 are in...

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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?

D'Souza, Arielle; Hoyt, Kendall; Snyder, Christopher M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...

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COVID-19 Acceleration and Vaccine Status in France - Summer 2021

Baunez, Christelle; Degoulet, Mickael; Luchini, Stephane; … - 2021

Objectives: This note provides an assessment of COVID-19 acceleration among groups with different vaccine status in France.Methods: We assess viral acceleration using a novel indicator introduced in Baunez et al. (2021). The acceleration index relates the percentage change of tests that have...

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Practical implications of "vaccine nationalism" : a short-sighted and risky approach in response to COVID-19

Abbas, Muhammad Zaheer - 2020

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Family composition and transitions into long-term care services among the elderly

Syse, Astri; Artamonova, Alyona; Thomas, Michael J.; … - 2021

Elderly's use of long-term care (LTC) services are likely to be influenced by family members, but there is scarce research on the role played by partners and/or adult children, especially taking geographic proximity into account. We thus examine how partners and adult children influence...

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Finance Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic

Agarwal, Ruchir; Reed, Tristan - 2022

A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID …

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Transmissible diseases, vaccination and inequality

Camacho, Carmen; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2023

We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an economy with two groups of workers, who are differently exposed to a transmissible disease. We show that the economy can lead to various scenarios in the long run, which range...

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Does universalization of health work? evidence from health systems restructuring and maternal and child health in Brazil

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodigo R. - 2016

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

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Do Old Age and Comorbidity Via Non-Communicable Diseases Matter for COVID-19 Mortality? A Path Analysis

Goswami, Gour Gobinda; Mahapatro, Mausumi; Ali, ARM Mehrab - 2021

This paper uses Our World data for COVID-19 death count, test data, stringency, and transmission count and prepares a path model for COVID-19 deaths. We augment the model with age structure-related variables and comorbidity via non-communicable diseases for 117 countries of the world for...

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