Global Health: A Global Health Scorecard Finds U.s. Lacking

DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., NY Times: Health
Mon, 05/22/2017 - 1:54pm

By a new metric that takes into account economic means, some countries are making surprising gains in health, while the United States lags behind.

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