Charity condemns child survival “lottery”

The survival lottery.

Let us suppose that organ transplant procedures have been perfected; in such circumstances if two dying patients could be saved by organ transplants then, if surgeons have the requisite organs in stock and no other needy patients, but nevertheless allow their patients to die, we would be inclined to say, and be justified in saying, that the patients died because the doctors refused to save them...

Italy: court's expert panel condemns tobacco.

Whenever a government announces tobacco control measures which tobacco companies suspect will be effective , the companies' first reaction, at least in private, is to work out ways of getting round them. Under self regulation , they implement whatever schemes they think will most completely negate the measures they have just agreed to, and continue for as long as they can get away with it. It c...

Charity ratings

How do charitable donors respond to the third party ratings that signal the quality of charities? I investigate this question using a novel data set from Charity Navigator which provides quality ratings for 5400 charities. Since Charity Navigator prominently displays a charity’s star rating which is assigned based on its overall rating, one can identify the causal impact of a one star increase ...

Evaluating child survival programmes.

a Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil. b Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. Correspondence to Cesar G Victora (e-mail: [email protected]). Renewed global interest in newborn and child survival has generated many programmes in lowand middle-income countries. There is an urgent need fo...

Inequalities in Child Survival