Environment

2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report

The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world.

Publication Date: 
31/01/2018
Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP)
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Environment, NGO, India, Global, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Energy, Economy, Education, Health, Science And Technology, Governance, Advocacy, Media, Internet
Climate Change

Carbon omission: How the U.S. media underreported climate change in 2017

This report examines media coverage of topics relevant to climate change that garnered significant attention in 2017, such as extreme weather events, and assesses the extent to which U.S. media coverage explicitly connected the topics to climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2018
Public Citizen
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Climate Change, Advocacy, Media, United States Of America (US), Extreme Weather Events
Health

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2016-17: survey findings report - Nigeria

Despite concerted efforts to curb the menace, malnutrition among children under five years is worsening in Nigeria, a new survey has revealed. The fifth round Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS5) also shows that malnutrition in under five children living in rural areas is higher than those in urban areas.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2017
National Bureau of Statistics
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Malnutrition, Nutrition, Infant mortality, Child Health, Nigeria, Africa, Education, Media, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Governance And Institutions

2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Based upon the survey results of 4,908 NGOs worldwide, the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report is groundbreaking in that it is the only annual research project dedicated to studying how NGOs use online technology on a global scale.
 

Publication Date: 
12/09/2017
Nonprofit Tech for Good
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NGOs, Technology, Media, Internet, India, Global
Health

Safe workers save lives

A study of the World Bank Group indicated that “as of May 2015, 0.11% of Liberia’s entire general population had died due to Ebola, as compared with 8.07% of its health workers, defined in the study as doctors, nurses and midwives.

Publication Date: 
21/09/2016
Public Services International
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Occupational Health, Health Personnel, Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Epidemics, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Trade Unions, Information, Media, Health Care
Health

High-level commission on health employment and economic growth - Final Report of the Expert Group

The advent of the Sustainable Development Goal era, in the context of new threats and instabilities to peoples worldwide, offers an ambitious agenda for revitalizing political commitments to human well-being—for future generations as well as our own.

Publication Date: 
21/09/2016
World Health Organization
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Health Personnel, Economic Development, Health Education, India, Private Sector, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Public Sector, Primary Health Care, Health For All, Conflicts, Global, Media, Migration
Forests

Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world

Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth's surface and atmosphere for over 350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the media and scientific papers of increasing fire occurrence, severity and resulting losses. However, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends.

Publication Date: 
05/06/2016
Stefan H. Doerr, Cristina Santin
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
371
1696
1-10
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Forest Fires, United States Of America (US), Europe, Australia, Natural Disasters, Media, Information
Governance And Institutions

2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report

The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world. Often referred to as the “think tanks’ think tank,” TTCSP examines the evolving role and character of public policy research organizations.

Publication Date: 
29/01/2016
Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP)
Tags:
Environment, NGO, India, Global, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Energy, Economy, Education, Health, Science And Technology, Governance, Advocacy, Media, Internet
Health

Pharmaceutical industry off-label promotion and self-regulation: A document analysis of off-label promotion rulings by the United Kingdom Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority 2003–2012

European Union law prohibits companies from marketing drugs off-label. In the United Kingdom—as in some other European countries, but unlike the United States—industry self-regulatory bodies are tasked with supervising compliance with marketing rules. The objectives of this study were to (1) characterize off-label promotion rulings in the UK compared to the whistleblower-initiated cases in the US and (2) shed light on the UK self-regulatory mechanism for detecting, deterring, and sanctioning off-label promotion.

Publication Date: 
26/01/2016
Andreas Vilhelmsson, Courtney Davis, Shai Mulinari
PLoS Medicine
1-22
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Drugs, Drug Industry, United Kingdom (UK), European Union (EU), Media, Information, Advertising
Climate Change

The Climate Knowledge Brokers manifesto: informed decision making for a climate resilient future

This manifesto explains that users of climate-related knowledge require access to information that is tailored to a myriad of specific circumstances, and the essential role climate knowledge brokers play in delivering this.

Publication Date: 
17/09/2015
Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB)
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Climate Change, Information, Knowledge, Media

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