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How to Fix American Health Care

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The Global Lessons of COVID-19 Foreign Affairs

WebThe vaccination campaign has been riddled with challenges: vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and disinformation, the politicization of public health, and …

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The COVID Communication Breakdown

WebBy Baruch Fischhoff. On paper, the U.S. federal government was well prepared for COVID-19. Personnel tasked with emergency preparedness held posts at …

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Why Even Well-Prepared Countries Failed the Pandemic …

WebThe exercise was just a simulation among high-level government leaders, but it yielded a clear message: the world was not prepared for a pandemic. Tragically, a …

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America Needs a Global Health Policy for the Pandemic …

WebThe seismic impact of the Gates Foundation can be seen in a massive increase in global health spending, including at the WHO: the organization’s budget …

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The Trust Gap: How to Fight Pandemics in a Divided …

WebAt the end of 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan package of reforms to make the United States and the world safer from future …

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How U.S. Pandemic Restrictions Became a Constitutional …

WebAfter 100 Years, Public Health Controls Are Under Attack. In November, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down emergency limits that New York State had placed on …

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To Stop a Pandemic

WebA Better Approach to Global Health Security. The COVID-19 pandemic, in the words of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health …

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Health Without Wealth

WebThe Worrying Paradox of Modern Medical Miracles. Against medical advice: a miner smoking in Heilongjiang Province, China, October 2015. For the first time in …

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It’s Time for an Independent Coronavirus Review

WebAn interim assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic response could help the WHO and national governments make important adjustments in real time. Because of …

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A New Way to Fight Disease and Boost Agriculture in Poor Countries

WebThe lack of investment in solving the problems of tropical diseases and orphan crops reflects a larger disregard for the poor. Rich countries have never met a …

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COVID-19 and the Economic Value of Life Foreign Affairs

WebApplying the VSL demonstrates that the negative health effects of COVID-19 are real economic losses to society and are just as consequential as the lost productivity …

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Pandemic Disease Is a Threat to National Security

WebOn January 13, 2017, national security officials assembled in the White House to chart a response to a global pandemic. A new virus was spreading with alarming speed, causing …

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The Challenge of Global Health Foreign Affairs

WebThanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving, today more money is being directed toward the world's poor and sick than ever before. But unless …

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We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Healthcare

WebNovember/December 2023 Published on October 24, 2023. The U.S. health-care system, according to Einav and Finkelstein, cannot just be repaired; it needs to be …

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Explaining the Mental Health Crisis on Campus Foreign Affairs

WebBut according to the 2016–17 Healthy Minds Study, an annual survey of mental health on American college campuses, while 44 percent of students said that …

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From "Marvelous Momentum" to Health Care for All

WebThe last quarter of the twentieth century saw little investment in international health or in the health problems of the world's poor. Over the past few years, as Laurie …

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The Republican Health Care Debacle Foreign Affairs

WebIn early May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), which would undo significant parts of the Obama …

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The Sick Man of Asia Foreign Affairs

WebIn their single-minded pursuit of economic growth, China's leaders have long overlooked public health -- which, by some measures, is now worse than under Mao. …

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