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Health Affairs, 27, no. 4 (2008): 1051 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.4.1051 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Disease & Demography

PROLOGUE

Disease And Demography

The combined populations of just two countries, China and India, constitute a staggering one-third of all humanity. During the past two decades both nations have undertaken extensive policy reforms that ushered in a period of explosive development. Near-double-digit annual economic growth rates have pushed hundreds of millions of some of the world’s neediest people out of poverty. A middle class comparable in size to the entire U.S. population has emerged in each country, with enough purchasing power to help propel economic growth worldwide.

But the other side of having a large population is that even modest upticks in disease prevalence . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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