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““Good quality health delivery systems with universal access protect individuals from illness, stimulate economic growth, and fight poverty by keeping people healthy. They also contribute to social harmony by providing assurance to the population that services are available””

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“The conclusions support WHO Director-General Margaret Chan’s assertion (see Profile) that “universal coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to…

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“According to a World Report in this issue, more than 60 million people in India were forced below the poverty line by health-care costs in 2011.”

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“The paradox of health care is that it is one of the most powerful ways of fighting poverty, yet can itself become an impoverishing…

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