In Health Care, Gap Between Rich and Poor Persists, W.H.O. Says
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Despite significant gains in medical science, disparities in public health persist between rich and poor countries.
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Recent insurance-cost hikes spotlight the deep problems with how the US pays for health care. Both presidential candidates need to be paying closer attention.
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Both presidential candidates agree the American health care system is troubled: Coverage is too costly, too many are uninsured. But President Bush and Democratic
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For a third straight year, poverty rose and the gap in health coverage widened, posing a challenge for the incumbent president.
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LONDON Sept. 15, 2004 - Progress toward boosting the status of women and providing reproductive health care to all has been steady over the past decade, but billions more dollars are needed to reach goals
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made expanding health care a focus in his annual parliament report, but doctors say the promises will make little difference to the country's poor in the absence of massive investment in services.
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The new dental and vision benefit program for federal employees and retirees tries to fill a gap in their health-care coverage by offering a mix of national and regional plans that vary in cost and enrollment options.
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DAULAT NAGAR, Pakistan -- Nusrat Riaz, a doctor for 17 years, has spent the past three directing a clinic that provides care to thousands of poor patients in this remote, wheat-farming village on the plains of Punjab.
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31 August 2004 - Developing countries have made tremendous strides in improving reproductive health and tackling women&#39;s rights issues, but rich nations have only paid a little more than half of the $6.
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WASHINGTON - Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks, and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.    The growing disparity is even more pronounced in this recovering economy...
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A year and a half after Wishard Memorial Hospital&#39;s condition was grave, the Indianapolis area&#39;s safety-net health care provider for the poor is in better shape but still in need of long-term care.
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Rising property prices are making the gap between rich and poor far worse, housing charity Shelter say.
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Presidential candidate John Kerry continues to trumpet a plan that he says will eliminate health care inequalities faced by the American Indian population.
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The dramatic increase in health-care spending in the United States since 1960 is a major reason that Americans are living longer, making the world's most expensive health-care system a good value despite its high costs, according to an academic study being released today.
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At some point in life every American enters through the doors of a hospital. Health care is a connection that can&#39;t be avoided which makes it a crucial issue in the presidential campaign.
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Developing countries are making real gains in promoting reproductive health and womenâs rights, but they are hampered by inadequate support from rich nations and serious problems persist, Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations
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With a comprehensive immigration overhaul now perhaps years away, Latin American governments concerned with the well-being of their nationals living in this country are taking on an equally thorny issue: the U.S. health-care system.