Sunday, 27 October 2013

Redefine Poverty Indicator to Begin at the Time of Conception

The World Bank must define life expectancy, its key poverty indicator, as starting at the time of conception and not at the time of birth if millions of lives are to be saved from injury or death. International public health experts, writing in the iJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine/i, said that definitional oversight, in which the life of the child is inadvertently cut into two, 'inside' and 'outside' the womb, covers up risks to the fetus and is particularly unfair ...

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