Tag: economic

The US Federal Reserve on Tuesday led the global charge in response to the growing economic risk posed by the new coronavirus, announcing an emergency interest rate cut after the UN health agency said the world has entered “uncharted territory.” But the Fed’s stimulus, which came hours after the Group of Seven finance ministers and

A new review, published in BMC Public Health, identifies the macroeconomic determinants of health and health inequalities. The social determinants of health have been widely recognized yet there was, until now, a lack of clarity about the specific ways in which large economic factors influence health and what can be done to address these issues.