by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 14, 2020 | News
Malnutrition is presenting a “double burden” as nations struggle to address both undernourishment and obesity simultaneously, according to a report published in The Lancet on Dec. 15. This double burden of malnutrition is most pronounced in lower- and middle-income...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 13, 2020 | News
The number of executions and new capital punishment sentences approached all-time lows in 2019, according to a Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) report published Dec. 17. Death row inmates declined by 82 in 2019, and, continuing a five-year trend, fewer than 30...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 8, 2020 | News
Nurses in the U.S. continue to receive high marks for honesty and ethics, according to a Gallup report published Jan. 6. Besting the next highest-rated profession (engineers) by 19 percentage points, nurses were perceived to have very high or high “honesty and ethical...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 6, 2020 | News
A majority of U.S. adults don’t want religion influencing government policy, with few exceptions, according to a new report from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research (AP-NORC) published on Jan. 2. Respondents were presented with two questions...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 2, 2020 | News
Few faith leaders appear in Gallup’s annual most admired people list for 2019, released on Dec. 30. Respondents were presented two open-ended questions, asking them to provide their most admired male and female figure “living today in any part of the world,” as well...