Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey, Jorge L. Rivera-Agosto
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of public policy deliberation during public health emergencies, particularly in magnifying inequalities and existing vulnerabilities among older adult populations. Civil society plays a vital role in influencing policy decision-making and advocating for reforms, emphasizing the need for open dialogue among aging, public health, and legal communities.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kuang-Cheng Chai, Yang Yang, Zhen-Xin Cui, Yang-Lu Ou, Ke-Chiun Chang
Summary: This paper empirically analyzes the non-linear effect of the business cycle on population health in China, with government intervention as a critical factor. The research finds that government intervention has a significant impact on the relationship between the business cycle and population health, shifting it from negative to positive when government intervention exceeds a certain threshold value. This highlights the importance of state intervention in response to economic challenges.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Veena Sriram, Sorcha A. Brophy, Kartik Sharma, Maya Annie Elias, Arima Mishra
Summary: Associations and unions representing health workers are important actors in the development and implementation of health policy. However, existing research lacks specific analysis of their roles and characteristics. This article aims to expand the understanding of these organizations by unpacking their heterogeneity and roles in policy processes, as well as situating them within different contexts. Researchers and practitioners should focus more on these organizations and incorporate them into policy processes to ensure stronger global health workforce policies.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Viji Diane Kannan, Julianna Pacheco, Kelly Peters, Susan Lapham, Benjamin P. Chapman
Summary: We found that childhood health status has an influence on adult political ideology, with better childhood health being associated with a conservative political ideology. Adolescent and adult health, personality traits, and academic aptitude do not mediate this relationship. Childhood health may serve as a mediator between social, environmental, and policy contexts and political ideology.
SSM-POPULATION HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yifu Yang, Sheng Zhang, Nannan Zhang, Zuhui Wen, Qihao Zhang, Meng Xu, Yingfan Zhang, Muchuan Niu
Summary: Based on China's time series data, this study analyzes 10 constraints to economic growth and draws the following conclusions: The Chinese government implemented different economic policies during different stages of reform and opening up; excessively high government debt ratio in China is starting to impede economic growth; the Chinese government mostly adopts a discretion adjustment strategy in policy selection and coordination; both fiscal and monetary policies can effectively regulate economic growth, and exogenous shocks contribute to about 25% of the prediction variance in economic growth rate.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Mingyao Cao, Keyi Duan, Mingyu Cao, Haslindar Ibrahim
Summary: This paper investigates the interrelationships among local government debt, fiscal decentralization, and public health. The investigation begins by constructing a theoretical model to analyze the inherent connections between these variables. Subsequently, an empirical analysis is conducted using data from China between 2015 and 2021. The findings demonstrate a bidirectional relationship between fiscal decentralization, local government debt, and public health. Specifically, it is observed that an increase in local government debt has adverse effects on both fiscal decentralization and public health, while fiscal decentralization has a positive impact on public health. These insights are consistently validated through rigorous regression methodologies, affirming the robustness and significance of these relationships.
Article
Business
Hai-Jie Wang, Kang An, Mingbo Zheng
Summary: The research suggests that a right-wing ruling party is associated with a greater number of new daily confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19, with this impact being more pronounced in Asian countries. Additionally, government ideology had no effect on COVID-19 before the outbreak, but played a significant role in controlling the epidemic after the World Health Organization announced a global pandemic.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2021)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lina Diaz-Castro, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez-Rojas, Hector Cabello-Rangel, Ever Sanchez-Osorio, Mauricio Velazquez-Posada
Summary: This article conducted a systematic review of scientific literature to understand the role of governance in health policies during health emergencies like the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The review found that governance approaches mainly focused on the health emergency problem, description of actors, and decision-making processes. However, there is a lack of a coherent set of global health policies within a large-scale global governance framework. The social, economic, and political contexts across countries have resulted in heterogeneous health outcomes during the pandemic.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jorge Arias de la Torre, Amy Ronaldson, Jordi Alonso, Alex Dregan, Ian Mudway, Jose M. Valderas, Paolo Vineis, Ioannis Bakolis
Summary: Air pollution and multimorbidity are important challenges for Public Health worldwide. Although the relationship between air pollution and single chronic conditions is well established, the evidence about the relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity is limited. Obtaining evidence about this relationship is challenging due to its multifaceted and complex nature, specific pollutants, levels of exposure over time, and data availability. This evidence could inform the development of recommendations to reduce harmful levels of air pollutants and prevent the development of multimorbidity.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson, Max Kozlov, Amy Maxmen, Alexandra Witze
Summary: This article assesses whether the US president has fulfilled his promise of making evidence-based decisions in his first year in office.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Mar Estupinan Fdez de Mesa, Afrodita Marcu, Emma Ream, Katriina L. Whitaker
Summary: This article addresses the persistent inequalities in cancer care and outcomes, and the mixed evidence regarding the root causes of these inequalities. It introduces the intersectionality framework as an alternative lens to understand and analyze the unique experiences of cancer patients at the intersection of multiple social categories. The article outlines a scoping review protocol to systematically map the relationship between intersectionality and inequalities in cancer care and outcomes, and to examine the application of the intersectionality framework in studies across countries.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson
Summary: A non-proliferation researcher warns that Russia's rejection of a significant arms-control agreement is leading nuclear powers towards a troubling lack of regulation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ying Mei, Lisha Tan, Wenmin Yang, Jie Luo, Lei Xu, Yi Lei, Hong Li
Summary: This study investigated the influence of satisfaction with government management, perception of risk, and gratitude on public anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. The findings from a nationwide online survey of Chinese adults (N = 876) conducted between March 25-March 30, 2020, when new cases declined significantly, showed that anxiety levels decreased compared to the peak period. Multiple parallel mediation modeling revealed that risk perception and gratitude partially mediated the relationship between satisfaction with government management and public anxiety. Increasing satisfaction and gratitude, and reducing risk perception are important for promoting public mental health during the pandemic.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Shaoming Cheng, Hai (David) Guo
Summary: The study examines the fiscal correlation between homeowner associations (HOAs) and local municipal governments in the United States, suggesting that a greater presence of HOAs in a municipality is associated with declining public expenditures and revenues for providing public services to local residents.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Asibul Islam Anik, Bishwajit Ghose, Md. Mosfequr Rahman
Summary: In Bangladesh, higher levels of women's social empowerment are positively associated with maternal healthcare utilization. Greater empowerment is correlated with increased healthcare utilization, suggesting the importance of addressing women's empowerment in policies aimed at expanding health service utilization.
