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    Responses to COVID-19 in the US build on a 100-year history of state and local public health partnerships

Responses to COVID-19 in the US build on a 100-year history of state and local public health partnerships

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Efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic have not just come from the US federal government – state and local governments have played an important role, too, including by collaborating with non-governmental organizations. Matthew Purcell writes that these partnerships are nothing new: like Partners in Health today, organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation aided and managed public health campaigns in […]

May 18th, 2022|Healthcare and public services, Matthew Purcell|0 Comments|
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    Using intersectionality to examine organizational justice can paint a fuller picture of the discrimination experienced by LGBTs in the Federal service.

Using intersectionality to examine organizational justice can paint a fuller picture of the discrimination experienced by LGBTs in the Federal service.

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While lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT) employees in the Federal service no longer experience explicit discrimination, they see it as less fair compared to heterosexuals, according to new research from Gregory B. Lewis and Blake Emidy. They find that the perceptions of LGBTs about the fairness of the Federal service varies by race, gender, disability status, […]

December 13th, 2021|Blake Emidy, Gregory B. Lewis, Healthcare and public services|0 Comments|
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    If the Democrats fail in their plans to Build Back Better, Americans may turn back to Trump.

If the Democrats fail in their plans to Build Back Better, Americans may turn back to Trump.

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President Joe Biden came into office with a plan to “Build Back Better” following the COVID-19 pandemic and four years of the Trump presidency. A key part of this agenda is a $3.5 trillion spending plan covering affordable and public housing, infrastructure, childcare, and measures to tackle climate change. Glyn Robbins writes that success for Biden’s spending plan in […]

October 21st, 2021|Glyn Robbins, Healthcare and public services|0 Comments|
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    How a patchwork of state taxes contributes to menstrual inequity in the US

How a patchwork of state taxes contributes to menstrual inequity in the US

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Federalism in the United States means that many policies are the responsibility of individual states rather than, or in addition to, the federal government. Shyam K. Sriram, Stacy Cavanaugh, Annie Faulkner, and Mackenzie Winchester-Daniel take a close look at state tax policies on menstrual products, finding that 26 states still impose such taxes, though many have tried and failed […]

October 12th, 2021|Annie Faulkner, Healthcare and public services, Mackenzie Winchester-Daniel, Shyam K. Sriram, Stacy Cavanaugh|0 Comments|
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    Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is good policy – and good politics

Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is good policy – and good politics

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The Senate is set to pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill with bipartisan support. In this Q&A, Julie Norman explains what’s in the bill, what it means for Biden, and what’s next for Democrats – who are also pushing another infrastructure bill.
What’s included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill? 
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill – which is set to be voted […]

August 10th, 2021|Healthcare and public services, Julie Norman|0 Comments|
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    Social vs market value: how much is a COVID-19 vaccine worth?

Social vs market value: how much is a COVID-19 vaccine worth?

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Vaccine uptake protects individuals and societies, but how much is the COVID-19 vaccine worth? Joan Costa-Font, Caroline Rudisill, Sayward Harrison, and Luca Salmasi estimate that the willingness to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine in the US, UK, Spain, and Italy in July 2020 ranged between 100 and 200 US dollars. However, the social value of the vaccine exceeds its […]

July 10th, 2021|Caroline Rudisill, Healthcare and public services, Joan Costa-Font, Luca Salmasi, Sayward Harrison|0 Comments|
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    Present day partisanship and the legacy of structural inequality has helped fuel the spread of COVID-19 in Native nations

Present day partisanship and the legacy of structural inequality has helped fuel the spread of COVID-19 in Native nations

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The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on Native nations in the US with COVID-19 rates 350 percent higher among Native Americans compared to whites. In new research Raymond Foxworth, Laura E. Evans, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Cheryl Ellenwood, and Carmela M. Roybal contextualize the history of colonization and policy neglect by federal and state governments to explain the unequal […]

July 7th, 2021|Carmela M. Roybal, Cheryl Ellenwood, COVID-19, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Healthcare and public services, Laura E. Evans, Raymond Foxworth|0 Comments|
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    State mask mandates to address COVID-19 have been complicated by anti-mask measures often dating back to the 19th century.

State mask mandates to address COVID-19 have been complicated by anti-mask measures often dating back to the 19th century.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, governors, attorneys general, and public health officials have scrambled to enforce social-distancing guidelines and mask wearing. Their efforts were opposed in several states by those who argue that mandatory face-coverings are unconstitutional. Efforts to enforce mask wearing have been complicated by legacy anti-mask legislation in almost 40 percent of states (and the District of Columbia), which […]

July 2nd, 2021|Healthcare and public services, Kayla Miller, Meet Patel, Shyam K. Sriram, Will Gigerich|0 Comments|
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    Why compromise is inevitable for Biden’s big infrastructure plans

Why compromise is inevitable for Biden’s big infrastructure plans

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Last week, President Joe Biden unveiled a federal budget totaling $6 trillion, which includes significant new spending on infrastructure. If passed in its entirety, the budget would increase federal spending as a portion of the economy to historic heights — reaching sustained levels not seen since World War II. In this Q&A, Thomas Gift examines the implications of this […]

June 4th, 2021|Healthcare and public services, Thomas Gift|0 Comments|
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    Book Review: New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives by Alex de Waal

Book Review: New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives by Alex de Waal

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In New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives, Alex de Waal offers a new political history of epidemics, identifying and critiquing a repeated mobilisation of the ‘war metaphor’ of pandemic disease to show our persistent (mis-)framing of biological illness. The book is an extremely comprehensive and fascinating history of previous epidemics, their metaphors and […]

May 16th, 2021|Book Reviews, Hannah Farrimond, Healthcare and public services|0 Comments|
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