4. The Politics of Health

Excerpted and adapted from Health and Health Care Inequities: A Critical Political Economy Perspective (Chapter 6), Fernwood Publishing, 2025. See video of booklaunch in Toronto. Drawing inspiration from Engels (1845), Marx and Engels ([1848] 1964), and Marx (1867), and extending my own previous work (Borras 2021, 2022, 2023), this piece…

As of July 15, 2025, the US has experienced 1,309 measles cases, marking its largest outbreak since 1991, with Texas leading the way.

Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance

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The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics.

Experts said the health secretary’s remarks send a dangerous message: Don’t trust your physician.

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A federal panel filled with vaccine skeptics has bewildered public health experts and thrown vaccine makers into turmoil

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The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against vaccinations, with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrawing U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization. The group — known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — is the world’s largest funder of life-saving vaccinations and says it has helped vaccinate more than 1.1 billion children in 78 lower-income countries, preventing nearly 19 million future deaths. Kennedy also recently stacked an important vaccine advisory panel with unqualified appointees, many of them holding anti-vaccine views. “Anti-vaccine activists have been shouting from the sidelines for decades. Now they’re making policy,” says Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

US health secretary says US will decline to renew funding for Gavi, a partnership that works to provide vaccines for poorest countries

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Patients hospitalized with COVID-linked acute kidney injury are more likely to survive if they are vaccinated than if they are not, a recent study suggests.

What can we do for ourselves during this extraordinary period to reduce our own and our family's risk of contracting the new coronavirus? How can you protect yourself? The transmission pattern of the new coronavirus is very similar to that of influenza and the common cold, mainly through droplet transmission and contact transmission. It can be transmitted through droplets such as from sneezing and coughing, or through direct contact with the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose, eyes, etc., or through contact with patients and items contaminated with viruses. Here are a few things everyone can do to reduce the spread of the virus: Wash hands often with soap and water, especially after coughing, sneezing, taking care of patients, before and after eating, and after going to the bathroom for at least 20 seconds; Avoid touching eyes, nasal cavity and

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Jess Steier, DrPH, David Higgins, MD, MPH, Elisabeth Marnik, PhD, Aimee Pugh Bernard, PhD, Dr. Christina Madison, and Annicka Evans On Monday, RFK Jr announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he…

The Trump administration has reportedly given the personal data of millions of Medicaid enrollees to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as part of President Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) handed over a dataset on Medicaid enrollees in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., according…

Every time I post about vaccine science, the responses are swift and predictable: “Where was the evidence for the lockdowns and the masks?” The question carries the weight of genuine frustration. For…

Although the Nordic countries experienced relatively low pandemic excess mortality, the impact and timing of excess mortality differed substantially. These estimates-arguably the most accurate available for any region in capturing pandemic-related excess deaths-may inform future research and policy …

Lockdowns were widely adopted worldwide during the COVID 19 pandemic and have been hotly debated ever since. What lessons can be drawn for future pandemics?