The public's health is intimately linked to politics and policy. But political science has yet to
make a major contribution to understanding the political economy of health (as distinct from …

Aim A critical discussion of the intersections between racism and colonialism as social
determinants of health and explore how these discriminatory ideologies shape nursing …

Motivation Governments usually see food security in terms of the availability of and access to
sufficient, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food. Food justice scholars, however, see …

Puerto Rico (PR) has a growing physician migration problem. As of 2009, the medical
workforce was composed of 14,500 physicians and by 2020 the number had been reduced …

With growing machine learning (ML) applications in healthcare, there have been calls for
fairness in ML to understand and mitigate ethical concerns these systems may pose …

Context Puerto Rico experienced four natural disasters in 4 years (2017–2021): Hurricanes
Irma and Maria, thousands of earthquakes reaching 6.4 magnitude, and the COVID-19 …

Hurricane María caused significant devastation on the island of Puerto Rico, impacting
thousands of lives. Puerto Rican crisis migrant families faced stress related to displacement …

A humanitarian crisis emerged when Hurricane María hit Puerto Rico in 2017,
demonstrating the urgency in addressing the needs of older adults and people with access …

Abstract Background US Hispanics/Latinos are disproportionately susceptible to metabolic
syndrome (MetS), attributed in part to systemic inequities related to health and lifestyle …

This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican
governments exacerbated the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and manufactured the …