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Disease Prevention
Lack of reliable death tolls worldwide makes curing the sick even tougher
December 12th, 2004
Many countries can't say how many of their citizens die every year or what kills them, undermining efforts to combat disease and deliver necessary medications to the sickest and poorest corners of the globe, a top health official said November 17, 2004. "This is the first building block to public health and it's not being done in many countries," World Health Organization (WHO) Assistant Director General Tim Evans told 29 ministers of health and hundreds of researchers. The inability to count those who die around the globe every day is "the most offensive problem" the health community faces, Evans said. The WHO is co-sponsoring a...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2004-12-12)
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