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Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of long influenza following the last five influenza pandemics [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction Influenza pandemics have been evaluated in terms of acute disease, while giving limited attention to long-term consequences. Renewed interest in postviral conditions following the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need to reassess earlier ...
Sven-Erik Mamelund +2 more
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EClinicalMedicineSummary: COVID-19 and previous pandemics have shown how diseases can disrupt, threaten, and transform daily life. Since pathogens and societies are continuously evolving, every pandemic is different.
Seba Contreras +26 more
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Pandemic and progressivity [PDF]
International 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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Economics & 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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Socioeconomic status and disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Eastern Oslo, Norway
Public 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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Pandemic prioritarianism [PDF]
Journal 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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Journal 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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BMC 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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SSRN 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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Violence and Abuse: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic
Western 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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