COVID-19, a biomedical disease has serious physical and tremendous mental health implications as the rapidly spreading pandemic. One of the most vulnerable, but neglected, an occupational community of internal migrant workers is prone for the development of psychological ill-effects due to...

Background. Public health actions may involve military medical professionals supporting legally-mandated public health efforts, particularly in emergencies and disasters. Issue. The power of military medical professionals to enforce public health mandates is dictated by the specific laws under...

We combined a natural experiment (the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020) with the tools of laboratory experiments to study whether and how an unprecedented shock on social interactions (the introduction and abrogation of a nationwide lockdown) affected the evolution of individuals'...

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor...

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

This paper examines the association between political partisanship and willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 in the US. It shows that those counties with a stronger lead of the Republican candidate during the latest presidential electoral rounds displayed consistently lower vaccination rates...

Public health practice - the prevention of disease and injury and the protection of the population - relies on access to information. Legal practice treats information very differently: it is a weapon: has power and value, and it is rarely yielded without getting something in return. Civil...

The law is now firmly established as a powerful instrument of public health. Some of the most important public health victories in the United States in the past century - declining lead exposure, reduced rates of smoking, improvements in workplace and motor vehicle safety, and increased...

Senior Fellow Walter M. Cadette's areas of special interest include public policy, business capital spending, and international trade. He is currently examining the options available for providing health care. His project will include (1) a description of the health care delivery system in the...