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How to Fix American Health Care

WEBIn 2017, Americans spent an average of $10,224 per person on health care, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study. The equivalent figure across similarly wealthy countries …

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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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America Needs a Global Health Policy for the Pandemic Age

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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Why Even Well-Prepared Countries Failed the Pandemic Test

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

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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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, …

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How Private Companies are Transforming the Global Public Health …

WEBThanks largely to private-sector involvement, external financing for the fight against malaria has skyrocketed, from about $100 million a year in 1998 to over $1 …

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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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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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Why Wildlife Products Are Dangerous for Your Health Foreign …

WEBDemand for wildlife products drives an illicit trade in animals that gravely threatens global biodiversity and entire ecosystems. Campaigns to counter it usually …

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The Problem With Zero

WEBThe Chinese people’s frustration with their government’s “zero COVID” policy has reached a boiling point. Starting on November 26, protests erupted across multiple …

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