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Health Literacy in Latvia: A Public Health Challenge Shaped by Socio-economic Inequality

By Mara Dzene , Agnes Lubloy and Zane Varpina

Latvia faces a serious health literacy challenge: many adults struggle to access, understand, evaluate, and apply health…

A Potential Broadening of the Excise Tax on Food Products High in Sugar and Salt: The Case of Latvia

By Marija Krumina and Anna Pluta

Overweight and obesity are significant public health issues, contributing to various chronic diseases such as cardiovasc…

Alcohol-Related Costs and Potential Gains from Prevention Measures in Latvia

By Inese Gobiņa , Anna Pluta , Inese Stars and Anna Zasova

Latvia has the highest per capita registered alcohol consumption rate among EU and OECD countries (OECD, 2024). In this…

Media Coverage and Pandemic Behaviour: Evidence from Sweden

By Maiting Zhuang

Individual behaviour can often have wider societal consequences and it is important to understand how to affect positive…

What Can We Learn from Regional Patterns of Mortality During the Covid-19 Pandemic?

By Martina Brandt , Claudius Garten , Artur Król , Michal Myck and Monika Oczkowska

Given the nature of the spread of the virus, strong regional patterns in fatal consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are…

Public Healthcare Expenditures in Transition Countries: Does Government Spending Respond to Public Preferences?

By Artur Król and Kajetan Trzciński

The transition from centrally planned to free-market economies in 1989 initiated a period of social and economic upheava…

Ahead of Future Waves of Covid-19: A Regional Perspective on Health Risks and Healthcare Resources in Germany and Poland

Drawing on the most fundamental conclusions from the early research on the Covid-19 pandemic, in this policy paper we ex…