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13.2 Global Aspects of Health and Health Care

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. 
   Describe how the nations of the world differ in important indicators of health and illness.
   
2. 
   Explain the health-care model found in industrial nations other than the United States.
   

As we have seen in previous chapters, understanding what happens in other societies helps us to understand what happens in our own society. This section’s discussion of health and health care across the globe, then, helps shed some light on what is good and bad about US health and medicine.