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WHO Study Backs Universal Health Care
Aug. 28, 2008
By Stephanie Nebehay
Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which called for all countries to offer universal health care.
Huge discrepancies also exist within countries, including Scotland where a boy born in the poor Glasgow suburb of Calton can expect to live to 54, 28 years less than one born in affluent Lenzie, just across town, it said.
"The health inequities we see in the world are absolutely dramatic in their scale," Michael Marmot, a WHO health researcher, who chaired the commission, told reporters.
© 2008 Reuters
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 29 August 2008
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