Viewpoints

VIEWPOINT Berenice Cerra and Daniel Dorado The Justice of Ecuador has released a decision declaring an executive decree that eliminated and decreased taxes on ultra-processed food products, tobacco, alcohol, guns, and plastics, unconstitutional.[1]…

VIEWPOINT Sandra Smiley and Michele Heisler Climate change has numerous impacts on health, both current and projected.[1] These health impacts are disproportionately borne by people experiencing poverty, inequity, and marginalization.[2] Two…

VIEWPOINT Gautam Gulati, Brendan D. Kelly, and Mary Donnelly There is a significant over-representation of people with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in penal populations worldwide.[1] This phenomenon results from penal populism, lack…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 143-146  PDF VIEWPOINT Joseph J. Amon and Leonard Rubenstein In May, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) and Insecurity Insight issued their 2023 report on attacks on health.[1] The report identifies…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 147-150  PDF VIEWPOINT Tania Bosqui, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Rima A. Afifi, Alastair Ager, Theresa S. Betancourt, Alan Carr, Kristin Hadfield, Ghena Ismail, Mark J. D. Jordans, Salam Jabbour, Zeena Khazendar, Bassam Marshoud,…

Daniel Pizzolato, Dorothea Chatzikonstantinou, and Alice Cavolo Access to abortion is guaranteed by law in Italy but in practice such access can be difficult to achieve. In October 2022, legislation was proposed that could undermine current abortion…

Summer Peet, Jonathan Cohen, Laura Ferguson, and Sofia Gruskin In 2020, just as COVID-19 was revealing the human rights underpinnings of a global pandemic, one of the world’s largest private philanthropic programs devoted to health and human…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 151-154  PDF VIEWPOINT Ranit Mishori, Payal K. Shah, Karen Naimer, and Michele Heisler  As a provider, I am supposed to counsel my patients on risks and benefits, alternatives, and help them navigate through making…

Raquel Selcer and Sanjna L. Surya The World Health Organization (WHO) last week declared the situation in Gaza to be approaching “humanity’s darkest hour”.[1] Israel has killed over 19,000 Palestinians in Gaza to date, over 7,000 of whom are…

William C. Lieber, Faraan O. Rahim, Bhav Jain, Devesh Shah, and Mohammad Z. Sahloul In the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in over 1,200 Israeli deaths and the capture of 240 hostages, the Israeli…