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How Involuntary Commitment Laws Relate to Mental Health and Homelessness: the U.S. and Italy

by Samantha Hoover | Nov 29, 2022 | Comparative Law, Disability, Healthcare, Human Rights, Italy

This article will suggest that the U.S. should follow the legal framework of Italy’s involuntary commitment laws.  Adding the “need for treatment” standard, coupled with increasing the number of verifications along the chain to commitment, could affect the rates of...
No Need for the CRPD?: Disability, Reproductive Autonomy, and Legal Capacity in the United States

No Need for the CRPD?: Disability, Reproductive Autonomy, and Legal Capacity in the United States

by Elizabeth Schroeder | Oct 24, 2022 | All, Disability, Healthcare, Human Rights, Women

A note on language: I use both ‘identify-first’ (disabled person) and ‘people-first’ (person with a disability) language throughout this article because English-speaking disability advocates use (and request that other people use) one or both of these. People with...
SAPs in Disguise: Modern IMF Programs Have Similar Negative Effects to their Criticized Predecessors

SAPs in Disguise: Modern IMF Programs Have Similar Negative Effects to their Criticized Predecessors

by Ethan Syster | Apr 19, 2022 | Africa, All, Financial, Healthcare, North America

(image link) The International Monetary Fund’s (“IMF”) current loan programs to support low-income countries (“LICs”) are simply Structural Adjustment Programs (“SAPs”) disguised under new names. These programs, created in response to staunch criticism of the...
Comparing Healthcare Policy Outcomes

Comparing Healthcare Policy Outcomes

by Connor Noel | Nov 15, 2021 | All, Comparative Law, Healthcare

Debates about the future of healthcare within the United States have carried on for decades. With no clear solution for skyrocketing costs, and a substantial percentage of the population left completely uninsured, the massive costs associated with certain treatments...
Filipino Nurses Take Care of Us; But Who is Taking Care of Them?

Filipino Nurses Take Care of Us; But Who is Taking Care of Them?

by Garrett May | Sep 27, 2021 | All, Covid-19, Healthcare, Philhippines

Filipinos have long been a mainstay of the immigrant population in the United States, with the Republic of the Philippines itself perpetuating a prominent culture of migration, maintaining 2.2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) across the world as of 2019.  Like...
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