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Comparing public health across cultures

Posted May 26th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 295 No. 17, May 3, 2006) found that British people are healthier than Americans. However, according to a kaisernetwork.org report (May 23, 2006), many of the apparent disparities can be attributed to different standards of testing and assessment.

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