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  • Senior Sport School - A Swedish Initiative that Should be Exported Everywhere in Europe. Photo by Skaneidrotten on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

    How we eat, drink and move

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    Healthcare reform has triggered many controversies in Romania ranging from street protests in January 2012 over a new healthcare bill to massive online activism just a year later against government plans to prevent citizens from using their mandatory health insurance in private hospitals. To be really honest and without being […]

  • Unhealthy Healthcare

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    The Mexican healthcare system suffers from a peculiar disease best known as financial dysfunction. Its main symptoms consist of a constantly growing number of users contrasted with revenue insufficient to cover all of the growing needs. It thus disables the effectiveness of existing institutions and risks metastasis to the most […]