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lost time and supplying rural ar- eas with adequate medical equip- ment, but the opposite is happen- ing in other countries. Here, with the decline in public expenditure on health and education, the gen- eral level of public health is ei- ther steady or actually declining. Inequality is on the rise, with the switch to a two-tier health serv- ice under which payment is de- manded for an increasing range of treatments, putting them out of the reach of much of the popu- lation. Several additional factors have contributed to the emergence of new health problems, in particu- lar the increase in perinatal or infant mortality, the reappearance of diseases such as tuberculosis or polio that had almost been eradicated, and an increase in the number of hepatitis and cholera

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