$4,200 And Up: Millions Of Children's Lives Saved Through Government Programs
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 21:10
in Psychology & Sociology
More than 34 million children's lives have been saved since 2000 because of investments in child health programs at a cost of as little as $4,205 per child, according to a new analysis in The Lancet. This analysis builds off the work of an international collaboration of researchers and, for the first time, creates a scorecard that allows governments, policymakers, and donors to track investments in child health and to link those investments to child deaths averted across countries in a comparable manner. read more