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American life
FromThe BMJ Podcast
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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Aug 7, 2013
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Podcast episode
Description
US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health produced by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, has found that on almost every comparative measure, Americans fare worse than their counterparts from other developed countries. Steve Woolf, from the Department of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, who chaired the report, joins us to discuss its findings, and the implications.
Released:
Aug 7, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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