Lancet Commission 2019: The Legal Determinants of Health

This Lancet Commission assesses the impact of executive action and legislation during the Trump administration on health and wellbeing in the U.S. The Commission highlights how Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, weaken environmental regulation, curtail reproductive rights, and defund public health agencies have exacerbated longstanding health inequities across racial and socioeconomic lines as well as caused tens of thousands of preventable, unnecessary deaths. U.S. life expectancy, which was similar to other high-income…

The Guttmacher Institute is a research and policy organization dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health worldwide through research, policy analysis, and public education. The Institute produces a wide range of resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health, publishes two peer-reviewed journals, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, and the public policy journal Guttmacher Policy Review. A comprehensive data center offers maps, tables, and summaries…

This report from the World Bank addresses the disconnect between the evidence-based conclusion that immigration is good for social and economic prosperity—for immigrants, their families at home, and the countries that welcome them—and the widespread opposition to immigration in destination countries, which is often rooted in the unfounded notion that migrants are the primary cause of economic difficulties like unemployment and declining social services. The report provides comprehensive data and empirical analysis of migration patterns…