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Life expectancy and government health programs
Citizens of wealthy nations generally have longer life expectancies compared to those from economically depressed countries due to government thrusts in sanitation, nutrition, immunizations, education and other basic services. Countries who give importance to other concerns such as military fortification sacrifice the population's longevity due insufficient social welfare programs. Industrialized nations can further improve longevity rates by emphasizing preventive instead of curative medicine.See the full content of this document
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Can money buy a longer life?
Armed with epidemiological studies showing rising disease rates, the head of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences recently announced yet another warning sign for the troubled new republic. "We have already doomed ourselves for the next 25 years," said Vladimir Pokrovsky. "The Soviet economy was developed at the expense of the population's health. The new generation is entering adult life unhealthy." Pokrovsky's findings on Russians' declining health alerted the world to an unusual phenomenon: Russia and...
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