The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial jurisdiction do not apply.

The HUDI is a large-scale, high-resolution, open-data tool that measures key urban health factors across nearly 1000 European cities of different sizes. As an open-source resource, HUDI provides ...

The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has unveiled a new tool: the Healthy Urban Design Index (HUDI). The HUDI ...

A few years ago, a student in my history of public health course asked why her mother couldn't afford insulin without ...

Unmet medical needs are mostly linked to issues within the healthcare system, such as high costs and long waiting lists. Here ...

Out-of-pocket costs are silent barriers to healthcare, said João Vasco Santos, MD, PhD, president of the Public Health Economics Section at the European ... care; when compared to neighboring ...

But, in signing the bill ordering a study of universal health care, he added that “we should aim higher” than guaranteed coverage only in the emergency room. “In this country and in this ...

About 70% of Americans who want to move abroad are hoping that their country of choice has universal health care, according to a 2023 survey by Expatsi, an organization dedicated to helping US ...

The other nine countries may have different health care systems, but they all had universal coverage, the researchers wrote, which ensures that any copayments for health services are small ...

Universal health care (UHC) takes different forms globally. The UK's NHS is an example of a single-payer system, funded by general taxation. Other countries, such as France and Japan, provide ...

Belgium's health care system is affordable and accessible. The country ... universal coverage, an ambitious uptake of modern technologies and efforts to prevent unhealthy lifestyles," said the ...