Dollars & Sense blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A new study in the journal PLoS of Medicine by Cambridge researcher David Stuckler reports that the rise in rates of tuberculosis in Eastern Europe is strongly associated with a country's receipt of loans from the IMF. The authors speculate that this a result of country's reducing their expenditures on health care to qualify for the loans. According to the NYT "The researchers studied...
ParaPundit (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
David Stuckler and Lawrence P. King of the University of Cambridge and Sanjay Basu of Yale find that 3 post-communist countries which participated in International Monetary Fund programs had higher rates of tuberculosis and mortality. The IMF seems like the causative agent of this outcome according to their analysis. We performed multivariate regression of two decades of tuberculosis...
Psyche, Science, and Society (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... unemployment rates, the age of the population and improved surveillance. The lead author, David Stuckler, a research associate at Cambridge University , defended the study against the fund’s criticisms, noting that the researchers considered whether increased mortality might have led to more loans rather than the other way around. Instead, they found that the increase in tuberculosis...
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... economic conditions attached had seen a nearly 8 percent drop in tuberculosis death rates, David Stuckler and colleagues at the University of Cambridge said."IMF lending did not appear to be a response to worsened health outcomes; rather, it appeared to be a precipitant of such outcomes," they wrote.But an IMF spokesman questioned whether the study took into account the instability...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The study, by David Stuckler and colleagues from the University of Cambridge, UK, and Yale University, USA, also found that IMF loans were linked with a 13.9% increase in the number of new cases of TB per year and a 13.2% increase per year in the total number of people with the disease. Between 1992 and 2002, most of the countries studied in this analysis received IMF loans for the first...
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... economic conditions attached had seen a nearly eight percent drop in tuberculosis death rates, David Stuckler and colleagues at the University of Cambridge said."IMF lending did not appear to be a response to worsened health outcomes; rather, it appeared to be a precipitant of such outcomes," they wrote.But an IMF spokesperson questioned whether the study took into account the instability...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... economic conditions attached had seen a nearly 8 percent drop in tuberculosis death rates, David Stuckler and colleagues at the University of Cambridge said."IMF lending did not appear to be a response to worsened health outcomes; rather, it appeared to be a precipitant of such outcomes," they wrote.But an IMF spokesman questioned whether the study took into account the instability...
Ph articles (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... we distress first to ensure that we have taken care of people's most basic health needs David Stuckler Cambridge University The resurgence of TB in oriental Europe and the former Soviet Union has caused widespread concern, particularly as it has coincided with an increase in the number of drug-resistant cases. The IMF is an international organisation that aims to oversee the global financial...
