Besides population age structure, health and other demographic factors can contribute to understanding the COVID-19 burden

Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19

Governments around the world must rapidly mobilize and make difficult policy decisions to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because deaths have been concentrated at older ages, we highlight the important role of demography, particularly, how the age structure of a population may help explain differences in fatality rates across countries and how transmission unfolds. We...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Its Related Factors in the General Population of Tehran and Kermanshah

Background and Objectives: Vaccine acceptance could seriously affect global efforts to control the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to estimate the Covid-19 vaccine acceptance and its related factors in Tehran and Kermanshah.   Methods: A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 850 participants in Tehran and Kermanshah using the random digit dialing method. Multipl...

The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Health Higher Education: Challenges, Approaches and Achievements to Post Covid-19

Introduction: Covid- 19 pandemic has caused challenges in Health higher education system. In order to manage these challenges, policies have been recommended, which most of those can be applied in the post- Covid- 19 era. The purpose of this study is to investigate challenges, approaches and achievements in Health higher education system, due to Covid- 19 pandemic. Method: The method of this st...