The work disability trap: manifestations, causes and consequences of a policy paradox.

Purpose: This article focuses on the risk that work disability policies lock people into work disability rather than promote durable health and return to work. We outline the concept of a as a heuristic device to explore this policy paradox inherent in the design of most social insurance systems.

Materials And Methods: This is a conceptual paper drawing on examples from existing research.

Emergency Basic Income during the Pandemic.

This paper focuses on an emergency basic income (EBI) as a tool for avoiding financial insecurity during the time of pandemic. The authors argue that paying each resident a monthly cash amount for the duration of the crisis would serve to protect them from the economic fallout.They suggest three reasons why the EBI proposal is particularly well-suited to play an important role in a comprehensive public health response to COVID-19: it offers an immediate and agile response; it prioritizes the most vulnerable in the affected population; and it promotes a solidaristic response to the pandemic crisis.

Advance commitment: an alternative approach to the family veto problem in organ procurement.

This article tackles the current deficit in the supply of cadaveric organs by addressing the family veto in organ donation. The authors believe that the family veto matters-ethically as well as practically-and that policies that completely disregard the views of the family in this decision are likely to be counterproductive. Instead, this paper proposes to engage directly with the most important reasons why families often object to the removal of the organs of a loved one who has signed up to the donor registry-notably a failure to understand fully and deliberate on the information and a reluctance to deal with this sort of decision at an emotionally distressing time.