MEDICAL BENEFIT SOCIETY.

Medical Society

Medical Society

With the publication of the January number of its transactions, the Poona Medical Society completes the first year of its existence. The interest taken in the Society by its members is manifested by the numbers who attend its meetings, of which there have been three during the last quarter. The following gentlemen have shown cases and contributed articles of interest at the meetings, viz., Lieu...

Some Medical Benefit Changes

a resident caretaker and telephonic communication, proper notices to the patients and adequate deputising arrangements. Without these, the lock-up surgery will always be a reproach to the panel service. In future the Panel Committee may require the Insurance Committee to have an investigation made, either into the conduct of an individual doctor or into any matter affecting the administration o...

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Benefit Society?

In short, it depends on the ownership type. We construct an event-based outcome measure of firm-level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact for public and private firms globally from 2007 to 2015 using data from RepRisk. Then, we measure the societal impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagements using participation in the United Nations Global Compact as a proxy. We d...

Benefit-Cost in a Benevolent Society

How should benefit-cost analysis account for the value that benevolent individuals place on other people’s pleasure from public goods? When adding up the benefits to be compared with costs, should we sum the private valuations, the altruistic valuations, or something else? This paper proposes a partial answer and offers some suggestions for benefit-cost practitioners.