The 2018 Primary Health Care Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan is 1,300 kilometres, 40 years and a very different world apart from the 1978 Alma Ata Conference.
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The other new Dr WHO
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To have or not to have UHC, that is the challenge
Yes, the UK's National Health Service could be improved, but at the end of the day a patient can get all the care required without indebting the family. That's...