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Health Affairs, 26, no. 4 (2007): 918-919
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.4.918
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Global Health Care Matters: Broadening The Focus


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IN AN AGE OF MATERIAL PLENTY and technologic marvels, it seems inconceivable that millions of poor people in the developing world should die every year from diseases that could be treated with inexpensive and effective interventions. This unending tragedy is repeated every day in low-income countries because their resources are limited, their systems for delivering treatments are inadequate, and efforts of the industrialized world to come to their rescue fall short. Health spending per person in high-income countries is more than 150 times what it is in low-income countries, as George Schieber and colleagues note in their lead paper. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor


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