Dennis M. Feehan

TL;DR: This analysis of the empirical record of the 1918-20 pandemic provides a plausible upper bound on pandemic mortality, indicating that most deaths will occur in poor countries--ie, in societies whose scarce health resources are already stretched by existing health priorities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of Seguro Popular on different dimensions of the health system and found that affiliation is preferentially reaching the poor and the marginalised communities.

TL;DR: Monitoring of the delivery of 14 interventions in Mexico for 2005-06 found effective coverage for maternal and child health interventions is substantially higher than that for interventions that target other health problems andconsiderable variation also exists in effective coverage at similar amounts of spending.

TL;DR: A statistical strategy for analyzing VA data that overcomes the limitations of PCVA is developed and validated, and the results suggest that PCVA relies heavily on household recall of medical records and related information, limiting its applicability in low-resource settings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report results from four waves of contact surveys designed to quantify the impact of physical distancing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and find that interpersonal contact has been dramatically reduced in the US, with an 82% (95%CI: 80%-83%) reduction in the average number of daily contacts observed during the first wave compared to pre-pandemic levels.