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Society Cambodia
Healthier and Larger Population: Life’s Good Here!
The growth in Cambodia’s population by some 5 million over almost a quarter of a century is due to not only a decline in mortality rates but an increase in life expectancy and growth momentum, showing that the country has improved its quality of life.
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Society
Society Scotland
Minimum Price for Alcohol: a Measure That’s Saving Lives
By imposing minimum pricing for alcohol, the government of Scotland, the United Kingdom, has effectively reduced the number of deaths and hospitalizations linked to alcohol consumption, a sign that the policy helps the population, mainly in socioeconomically deprived areas.
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Health
Health Tanzania
Child Mortality: Country Trains Health Professionals, and Sees Big Results
Tanzania has found the right formula to considerably reduce mortality rates of children under five years of age, and investments in primary health care interventions for children must be sustained to completely eradicate preventable child deaths.
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Health Bangladesh
Survival Rates Shoot up, for Both Babies and Their Mamas
Since gaining its independence 50 years ago, Bangladesh saw its infant mortality rate decline by 85%, an unprecedented success that encourages the authorities to go above and beyond to further reduce the mortality rate among infants, mothers, and young children in the following years.
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Health USA
Scientists Found a Way to Revive Dying Organs
As organ transplantation needs are currently unmet, the findings of a neuroscientist affiliated with Yale University located in Connecticut, the United States, make it now possible to restore function in multiple organs more than an hour after death.
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