examine risk factors associated with inequality. Design, setting and participants: Analysis of data from the World Development … Indicators 2003 database, compiled by the World Bank. Main outcome measures: Adult and child mortality among countries placed …, 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 …

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 …

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 …

aimed to examine trends in the level of preparedness and the World Health Organization (WHO) regional diferences before and …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 …

, within the broader context of non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, is an important pathway to global health and …

-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world …Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health …. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering levels in many parts of the globe. This paper complements existing …

Decisions on investing in health as well as other policies require deciding how to best allocate available resources … benefit-cost analysis is its emphasis on explicitly accounting for all significant outcomes (both health and non-health) and …

Background: A positive assessment of the role of globalization as a driver of a good public health performance has been … actually preceded an improvement in the public health performance. Far from falsifying the globalization critical research, our … essay shows the basic weaknesses of the new “pro-globalization” literature in the public health profession …