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...Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to examine the financing of higher education, the commission's task quickly broadened. Its 104 reports, running in size from a 978-page statistical survey to slim booklets of less than 40 pages, have probed such diverse facets as student dissent and dental education. Last week, with the publication of its final report, Priorities for Action, the project came...
There are 4600 doctors in Chile: there should be 8000 of us. Chile, then, lacks 3000 physicians. Chile also lacks more than 6000 dentists. There is no country in Latin America--and I speak with absolute certainty--there is not a single state medical service that provides adequate dental care. The service is limited in our countries, if they have it at all, to the simple, basic elementary process of extraction...
...addition, the union members got a company-paid dental plan that will begin in the second year of the three-year contract, longer uninterrupted holidays during the Christmas-New Year season and a new paid holiday on the Friday after Thanksgiving, also beginning in the second year...
Modern medical techniques have been used many times to examine the remains of long-buried people. Studies of mummies have revealed that many ancient Egyptians had dental problems, arthritis, pneumonia and plague. Egypt's legendary Merneptah, the Pharaoh of the Hebrew Exodus, suffered from arteriosclerosis. But Lady Li's body is unquestionably the best preserved ever to be subjected to a full-fledged autopsy...
Meanwhile, the mobile teams get down to business. Each traveling unit includes a doctor, a dentist or hygienist and, if possible, a nutritionist, all of whom pay their own expenses. Some medical services, such as eye and dental examinations, tests for high blood pressure and other common medical problems, are available. The emphasis is on prevention rather than treatment. "We do not treat people here," explains the Rev. Judith Cook, a Presbyterian minister and registered nurse who heads the Appalachian program. "We want people to know what health care is all about, what it has to offer...