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Children’s Health Care: Quality And Access Issues

PROLOGUE: For years, conventional wisdom has stated that when stacked against its industrialized peers, the United States consistently fails to yield population health indicators good enough to rationalize the resources it spends per capita on health care. Regretably, despite platitudes voicing the importance of investing in our youth, the state of American children’s health care seems to mirror the national picture. One need not look far for substantiation of this view. Sheila Leatherman and Douglas McCarthy have found, for example, that while the United States offers more neonatal intensive care services per capita than Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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