- THE INCREASING RACIAL DISPARITY IN INFANT MORTALITY: RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME AND...
HEADNOTE Although substantial declines in infant mortality rates have occurred across racial/ethnic groups, there has been a marked increase in relative black-white disparity in the ......
- Infant mortality: a problem of income distribution and
access.
Waldman ["Income Distribution and Infant Mortality," QJE 107, 4, November 1992] found that the distribution of income, as well as average income, affects infant mortality ......
- Innovative assistance
United Way is changing how it helps the communities it serves. Just ask Ellen Annala, president and CEO of United Way of Central Indiana. Annala ......
- Fishback, Haines, and Kantor.
Fishback, Haines, and Kantor assess the effectiveness of federal New Deal relief programs by examining their impact on infant mortality rates. Using both cross-sectional and ......
- Rising to global development challenges
HEADNOTE POVERTY Trade and development HEADNOTE OECD Development Co-operation Directorate Extreme poverty still ravages the lives of one in four people in the developing world ......
- Clockwork medicine
HEADNOTE Wind-up solutions IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 Freeplay Energy, the South African company made famous by its invention of wind-up radio and flashlights, is now making ......
- Recent release: report shows suburbanites fare better
in key health indicators.
A report released in September shows Americans who live in the suburbs fare significantly better in many key health measures than their counterparts who live ......
- A Wing Ding for the Kids
HEADNOTE < HEROES > Many charity events in the restaurant world are big-ticket, fancy food affairs. But that's not the only way to raise money ......
- Report shows suburbanites fare better in key health indicators
RECENT RELEASE A report released in September shows Americans who live in the suburbs fare significantly better in many key health measures than their counterparts ......
- CPCA Celebrates Achievement in Patient, Program Success at National Health Center Week...
August 5-11 Marks Health Center Week for California's Community Clinics and Health Centers Saving Lives While Saving Dollars SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In accordance with National ......
- Buffalo's Southwest Cafe.
Don Scott of Dacula, Ga., was declared the nation's Wing-Eating Champion at "Just Wing It," Buffalo's Southwest Cafe's first national wing-eating challenge in Atlanta. The ......
- Coping with aid volatility: aid may become even more
unpredictable, but there are ways to...
LOW-INCOME countries face many sources of instability. Their economies are usually dependent on a single primary commodity, making them particularly vulnerable to climate- or trade-related ......
- Tools for better global thinking.
2004 State of the Future by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon. American Council for the United Nations University. 2004. 97 pages, with CD-ROM....