The Polish health related patenting increased rapidly in the last decade making Poland the top CEE economy. Still, most of the filings remain only national, making Poland just a small share of the EU total and relatively less specialized than other EU countries. A limited number of higher...

The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a scale are matters of concern in their own right. They also foster a brake on economic development. It was these twin concerns that led the international community to put health...

Background: Health systems responsiveness is the key to addressing infectious disease threats such as pandemics. The paper outlines an assessment of health systems resilience by exploring the association of health systems and Global Health Security (GHS) parameters with case load and mortality...

Background: This study seeks to measure the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare jobs in Ohio. We examine whether healthcare sector workers were similarly affected compared to workers in other industries in Ohio and if there were any significant differences in job categories within the healthcare...

Public health events (PHEs) have emerged as significant threats to human life and health, as well as affecting economic growth. PHEs such as COVID-19 have led people to reflect on better regular prevention and control (RPC) for PHEs. Firstly, under the background of RPC for PHEs, a neoclassical...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) estimates total healthcare spending in Canada was $308 billion in 2021, up 15.3 percent ($40.8 billion) since 2019, swollen by $22.8 billion targeted at COVID-19. Total spending rose from 11.6 to 12.7 percent of GDP.Depending on the...

Strategic purchasing of health services has been identified as one of the critical components for countries to progress towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC). Due to decentralized governance, there are multiple purchasers in Nigeria, which has led to fragmentation, lack of...

This paper investigates how persistent changes in trust caused by the Great Recession have affected how governments and citizens across Europe responded to the next global crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that increases in individualism and mistrust towards institutions caused by...