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Abstract #303980

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Activity Number:	26
Type:	Contributed
Date/Time:	Sunday, August 7, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor:	Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #303980
Title:	Ten Million Children Are Dying in the Poor World
Author(s):	David Fitch*+
Companies:	Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Address:	Apartado Postal 82 01901, Guatemala, 01901, Guatemala
Keywords:	Lack of much needed statistics in Global Health ; Using Our Disciple to Enhance Human Welfare ; USAID ; World Bank ; Lot Quality Assurance Sampling ; Weighting in surveys
Abstract:	Each year, 10 million children under five die in developing countries. It's a scourge that rivals war. The current UNICEF report states that the rate in developing countries is 87 per thousand live births. The rate in the US is 8. I expect the 10 million number could be cut in half with a well-directed effort. Considering that the rate in Cuba, not a rich country, is the same as in the US, such is a reasonable hope. We statisticians could help if we were to see and choose to act. This may be the year with Fritz having chosen the theme, "Using Our Discipline to Enhance Human Welfare." The Global Health Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development (AID) has no statisticians, and the situation at the World Bank is in some ways---as I see things---worse. The Global Health community just doesn't act as if statistics is important. Examples showing this lack of will to learn and use statistics or to work with people who know relevant survey and evaluation methods will be given. Such criticism should be seen not as negative, but as a way to help AID obtain the needed funding from Congress. This is an expansion of a submission to Statisticians' Views.

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