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Elderly people dance on a street during the International Day of Older Persons in Sao Paulo's Avenida Paulista October 1, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Aging

Brazil's Population Fragility Taxes National Health Systems

by Danilo Farias de Morais

Rising noncommunicable diseases and aging are exposing structural weaknesses in the world's largest public health system

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Bad. Could it Have Been Even Worse?
Governance

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Bad. Could it Have Been Even Worse?

by Dominic Voehler, Joshua T. Cohen, Daniel A. Ollendorf

A look at how pre-pandemic health-care trends affected COVID-19 mortality rates

Governance

Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah
Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Governance

Racism as a Public Health Crisis

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Thomas J. Bollyky
The photo shows the council vice president standing in front of a slate-colored brick wall with her hands together looking at the camera.
Governance

Why Social Policies Make Coronavirus Worse

by Emily Mendenhall
A mannequin with a surgical mask on display where a vendor sells packages of masks on a corner in the Chelsea neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York City on March 27, 2020. The photo shows a mannequin wearing a blue mask. REUTERS/Mike Segar