Healthcare giants are saving millions from tax cuts but still not improving care.
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This book presents reflections and research that highlight tensions in the negotiations on pandemic preparedness treaties and revisions to the International Health Regulations, underscoring the geopolitical divide between developed and developing countries. It advocates regional health initiatives as a response to the multilateral impasse and reflects on the erosion of foundational public health concepts such as “essential medicines”.
New pandemics are inevitable. How can we best prepare for them and, above all, how can we avoid the mistakes and injustices made during the COVID-19 pandemic?
How differences in wealth lead to public health problems
The more equal your country is, the longer you live …
In the first installment of an in-depth analysis, Dr. B. Ekbal examines the potential global health impact of Donald Trump’s presidency, drawing parallels to his past healthcare policies
The Trump Effect: pushing global health to the brink : Peoples Dispatch
At the end of 2014, medical researchers published a shocking discovery: that outcomes for high risk cardiac patients at hospitals were better during periods when the top cardiologists were away from the hospitals for national cardiology meetings.
Comparative research on healthcare financing options shows revenue-financed healthcare to be the most cost-effective, efficient, and equitable, while all health insurance imposes avoidable additional costs.
Finance Healthcare, Not Insurance Premia | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)
Mounting evidence shows that this funding is going to expensive out-of-reach private hospitals and clinics in low- and middle-income countries that are widening healthcare inequalities, exacerbating poverty and gender-based discrimination and violating human rights. Far from advancing progress towards Universal Health Coverage as governments have committed, this form of development finance is undermining it.
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