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Pandemic and progressivity [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Tax and Public Finance, 2021
Based on a survey of about 2,500 US resident adults, we show that people who have experienced serious illness or job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or who personally know someone who has, favor a temporary progressive levy or structural progressive tax reform to a greater extent than others in the sample, controlling for income, demographic ...
Alexander Klemm, Paolo Mauro
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Socioeconomic status and disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Eastern Oslo, Norway

open access: yesPublic Health in Practice, 2023
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess whether socioeconomic status still remain a barrier to COVID-19 vaccination in eastern Oslo, Norway. Study design: A cross-section study. Methods: We conducted a web-based survey among the residents of
Andreas Lillebråten   +4 more
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Persistent Pandemics

open access: yesEconomics & Human Biology, 2021
We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any predictive content for mortality in the Covid-19 pandemic. We find strong persistence in public health performance. Places that performed worse in terms of mortality in the 1918 influenza pandemic also have higher Covid-19 mortality today.
Peter Z. Lin, Christopher M. Meissner
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Pandemic prioritarianism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 2021
Prioritarianism pertains to the generic idea that it matters more to benefit people, the worse off they are, and while prioritarianism is not uncontroversial, it is considered a generally plausible and widely shared distributive principle often applied to healthcare prioritisation.
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Disparities in the offer of COVID-19 vaccination to migrants and non-migrants in Norway: a cross sectional survey study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Vaccination is key to reducing the spread and impacts of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Migrants, compared to majority populations, tend to have lower vaccination rates, as well as higher infection disease burdens.
Esperanza Diaz   +2 more
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Pandemic Policymaking [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Social Computing, 2021
This study leverages a high dimensional manifold learning design to explore the latent structure of the pandemic policymaking space only based on bill-level characteristics of pandemic-focused bills from 1973 to 2020. Results indicate the COVID-19 era of policymaking maps extremely closely onto prior periods of related policymaking.
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EPICORE: AN INNOVATIVE GLOBAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE TOOL FOR HUMAN, ANIMAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH EVENTS

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Intro: EpiCore was launched in 2013 and is a tool designed to supplement traditional infectious disease surveillance efforts by bringing together human, animal, and environmental experts on a digital platform to provide field-based verification efforts ...
M. Schultheiss   +5 more
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Slums and Pandemics

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? A difference-in-differences analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of Covid-19. We develop and calibrate a choice-theoretic equilibrium model in which individuals are heterogeneous ...
Luiz Brotherhood   +3 more
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Indigenous communities and influenza: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesSystematic Reviews, 2023
Background Several studies have documented that specific Indigenous groups have been disproportionately affected by previous pandemics. The objective of this paper is to describe the protocol to be used in a review and meta-analysis of the literature on ...
D. E. Alves   +3 more
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Violence and Abuse: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as society struggled with increasing disease burden, economic hardships, and with disease morbidity and mortality, governments and institutions began implementing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders to help stop the spread of the virus.
Whiteman, Paula J.   +5 more
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