We investigate the uneven pattern of access to unemployment insurance (UI) by age, gender, race, and ethnicity across United States. present results from a descriptive analysis using publicly available data reported states over time on rates UI recipiency characteristics beneficiaries. Recipiency measures proportion all unemployed who are receiving benefits. find suggestive evidence that shares...

this commentary is a brief response to nir eyal’s argument that health policies should not make healthy behaviour a condition or prerequisite in order to access healthcare as it could result in the people who need healthcare the most not being able to access healthcare. while in general agreement due to the shared concern for equity, i argue that making health behaviour a condition to accessing...

concerns regarding the trans-pacific partnership (tpp) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. in the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...