Charity to help out the Health Service following a speech in Swansea in April it seems clear that Richard Grossman?as he suggests in the J^een Paper proposals?is looking 0 charity for some of the extra JJ?ney so badly needed by the ati?nal Health Service. After appealing to communities a^d volunteers to help ease the lot ?f Patients in remote, antiquated, ?yercrowded and understaffed hosDitoiPi...

The Fair Trade coffee initiative attempts to channel charity from consumers to poor producers via increased prices. Though widely heralded, we show that the rules of the Fair Trade system permit complete arbitraging away of rents due to costly excess certification of output. Using data from an association of coffee cooperatives in Central America, we verify that arbitrage on this margin causes ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if cervical spine immobilisation was related to patient mortality in penetrating cervical trauma. One hundred and ninety-nine patient charts from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (Charity Hospital, New Orleans) were examined. Charts were identified by searching the Charity Hospital Trauma Registry from 01/01/1994 to 04/...

The decrease of charitable contributions and the greatly increased cost of the whole conduct of hospitals has compelled managers to require payment, directly or indirectly, from the great majority of patients. It is to the credit of the working-man of today that he has that spirit of independence which makes him unwilling to receive this benefit as a charity. He resents the inquiries of the alm...

M ost healthcare institutions have now presented at least one year's audited inancial information using the format and definitions required by the new audit and accounting guide, Audits of Providers of Health Care Services (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA], NewYork City, 1990). The guide requires facilities to report charity care and allows them to report community ser...

Economists have long observed that crowding out of government grants to private charities is incomplete. The accepted belief is that givers treat the grants as imperfect substitutes for private giving. We theoretically and empirically investigate a second reason: the strategic response of a charity will be to reduce fund-raising efforts after receiving a grant. Employing panel data from arts an...

succès rencontrés très rapidement en résolution deprobì emes combinatoires, y compris dans desprobì emes clas-siques de recherche opérationnelle comme en ordonnancement par exemple, ont induit une forte vitalité industrielle et académique dans ce domaine. Les enjeux sont aujourd'hui d'aller vers une plus grande automatisation, qui n'at-teint pas encore celle des outils de programmation linéaire...

A common finding of the literature on dishonesty is that groups are more dishonest than individuals. We revisit this by replacing experimenter, implicitly hurt subjects’ dishonesty, with an explicit third-party: a local charity. With charity we do not find to be Instead, can even help moderate extent dishonesty.

BMJ VOLUME 331 20–27 AUGUST 2005 bmj.com A US charity is to challenge the US government’s requirement that international non-government organisations must explicitly oppose prostitution and sex trafficking if they are to receive government funds for family planning and HIV prevention activities. DKT International, which is based in Washington, DC, filed a lawsuit against the US Agency for Inter...