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Russia: oil money for the rich and austerity for the people
Russia’s steady growth in GDP and its 5% unemployment rate could make countries like Greece and Spain green with envy. The Russian economy surged ahead from the mid-2000s, seemingly immune to the shocks of the 2008 economic crisis. Foreign corporations kept pumping money into a country whose high levels […]
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Cambodia: chronic ailments of the healthcare system
I can hardly find a hospital or clinic to go to if I fall sick, especially in the late hours of the night. I don’t have a family doctor, nor do I have a trusted hospital or a clinic, not to even mention the financial side. My parents often advise […]
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The Shameful Frailty of the Rural Healthcare System in India
If the healthcare infrastructure in India is not revived in the near future then it is bound to crumble and when that happens – it will severely affect the economy and the people.
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El peregrinaje campesino por atención sanitaria en Centroamérica
Abstract: Centralamericans believe that the rural misery portrayed by the media in the seventies is gone. Most peasants have left the countryside and now live in the cities or in the US, they assume, but this is not true. Governments have neglected health coverage – which is supposedly free and […]
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Healthier without Wisdom
It was the 10th injection of anesthesia into my mouth, and I could still feel the dentist’s tools trying to pull my wisdom teeth. Thankfully, by the time the anesthesia was getting in, my wisdom was getting out. To get to this point, I had to wait six months in […]