Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

Since the emergence of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus at the end of 2019,
there has been an explosion of vaccine development. By 24 September 2020, a staggering …

Racial disparities are apparent in the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in the
United States, yet the factors contributing to racial inequities in COVID‐19 mortality remain …

Oral diseases are a major global public health problem affecting over 3· 5 billion people.
However, dentistry has so far been unable to tackle this problem. A fundamentally different …

On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was alerted to the emergence
of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in Wuhan city, China. Within days …

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020; it has
since had devastating consequences in the United States. 1 To date, there are more than …

Economic evidence is increasingly being used for informing health policies. However, the
underlining principles of health economic analyses are not always fully understood by non …

Sewer overflow (SO), which has attracted global attention, poses serious threat to public
health and ecosystem. SO impacts public health via consumption of contaminated drinking …

Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through
mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for
society, affecting those already subject to unacceptable health inequalities and resulting in …