Published in Frontiers in Public Health
A concerning number of hospitals have closed in the US in recent years and there are many other hospitals that are at significant risk of closure in the coming years. The COVID-19 pandemic magnified the trend of hospital closures, raising further concerns about the potential impacts of hospital closures and the important need for devising policies ...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Migration, from rural to urban settings is a common phenomenon in Latin America, due to social, economic, political, and other factors. Young people in search of economic and educational opportunities, financial, and social stability, have been migrating to larger urban centers, thus crafting important shifts in rural labor, generational transfer, ...
Published in Frontiers in Global Women's Health
One of the key issues embedded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the need for disaggregated data. Given the nature of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), studies on such should respond to this call. This paper investigates gendered and other perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination status in South Africa's Limpopo Province. The wor...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, school district politics rose to prominence on the nation's political agenda, as school boards grappled with controversial decisions about reopening schools and implementing mask mandates. A growing number of political scientists are using newly available data and innovative research strategies to examine policy respon...
La expansión urbana constituye una de las principales actividades que modifican los entornos naturales a nivel mundial, siendo las zonas más vulnerables a estas afectaciones las periurbanas. Un ejemplo es el 59% de la superficie de la Ciudad de México, considerado como Suelo de Conservación (SC). Dentro del SC existen ecosistemas naturales y se des...
Published in The Forum
An important stylized fact about American government is that many societal problems persist despite expert recognition that better outcomes are technically feasible. What explains the weakness of the political demand for more effective public policies? This study investigates one factor that may contribute to the attenuated demand for policy improv...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Objectives Aiming to disseminate information related to suicide prevention in Brazil, the “Setembro Amarelo” campaign has been conducted since 2015. The objective of this study is to assess the association between this campaign and elderly suicide rates over a 12-year period. Methods Data were gathered from the Mortality Information System and the ...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic had a great impact on several public sectors worldwide, requiring the implementation of public policies in an organized way to contain and control the disease. Thus, this study aimed to analyze public policies to face the COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Paraná, Brazil. Methods This was a cross-sectional, retrosp...
Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
The purpose of this text is to point out the contradiction existing in Chilean educational public policy regarding the curricular reform that converted the subjects of Physical Education and Health, History, Arts, and Religion into optional subjects for the 3rd and 4th years of high school. As far as Physical Education is concerned, scientific evid...
Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
