There are many reasons for the health inequities that we see around the world today. Public policy and the way society organises its affairs affects the economic, social and physical factors that influence the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age - the social determinants of health. Tackling health inequities is a political issue that requires leadership, political cour...

The aim of this paper is to contribute global discussion on public health policies for protecting and promoting healthy diets, as it advancing in the U.S. This assesses specific cases successful policy making from several countries across world, often against industry resistance. We discuss five key interventions: i) food labeling; ii) marketing restrictions school policies; iii) fiscal iv) mod...

ESSAYS ON REGIONAL AMENITIES AND PUBLIC POLICIES By ELENA YEVGENYEVNA ANDREYEVA AUGUST, 2016 Committee Chair: Dr. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Major Department: Economics This dissertation investigates how alterations in government policies affect the level of, and access to, public amenities, and how outcomes vary across space. The first essay sheds light on whether the recentralization of political...

INTRODUCTION The consequences of poor access and quality of healthcare services in developing countries are widely recognised by international agencies such as WHO. Moreover, with the HIV/AIDS pandemic wreaking havoc in sub-Saharan Africa, availability of trained physicians is essential for providing antiretroviral treatment to large numbers of individuals. Owing to emigration of physicians and...

This is the summary of a meeting where a group of experts, representing several health organizations and academic departments from different parts of Brazil, created a consensus about the main alcohol policies which should be implemented by different levels of the Brazilian government. The World Health Organization has been suggesting for 30 years the actions that should be implemented for the ...

DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082017ED4314 Patients are the same all over the world. Evidence is the same in the entire world. However, care policies are not the same. This is impossible to understand and unacceptable, since there is no different evidence for public and private care; it is not a matter of being capitalist or socialist, of presence or distribution of money; it is the fight against consum...

What and how much we eat and drink has a significant influence on our health. this is evident in the epidemic of obesity sweeping across developed and developing nations alike, bringing in its wake a range of diseases including diabetes, coronary heart disease and some cancers. one main cause of this is a change in diet that has directly affected our health and well-being. For more than a centu...