Word: healthful
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Near the top of the agenda of every socialist regime are elaborate programs for improving health care and expanding educational facilities. These states can boast that infant mortality has dropped dramatically, life expectancy is on the rise, and illiteracy is gradually being conquered. In short, state-provided social services are one promise that socialism has kept...
...China, the crash training of legions of doctors, nurses and paramedics and the founding of rural health centers have nearly eradicated cholera, plague and other diseases that for centuries had periodically ravaged the population. Similar efforts are now under way in Mozambique. The Marxist Frelimo regime has set up free health clinics in many villages for combating such chronic problems as malnutrition, malaria and tuberculosis...
Eastern European states offer free education (although the Communist parties have a great deal to say about who is admitted to the universities) and comprehensive health care. Sickness seldom imposes horrendous financial burdens on patients. The Physical Quality of Life Index (see map) shows that the essential human services provided by Marxist-Leninist states often match and sometimes top those in Western democracies...
...company is not very great. You can't look at just income; you must look at other values. We have our cabins, our spare time. What may be most important to me is my feeling of safety. I'm not thinking of crime as much as of health and retirement benefits. If I were to die now, for example, my wife and 15-month-old son would get 80% of my present income for some time. That's safety...
...sure whether the surgery is superior to other treatment or even to none at all. These very questions will now be examined in detail by an international team of neuroscientists led by Dr. H.J.M. Barnett of University Hospital, London, Ont., and financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The team expects to study 1,000 stroke-prone patients in medical centers round the world. Half of them will receive the operation; the other half will get conventional therapy, which in some cases may be nothing more than aspirin. After five years of close observation, the survey should tell whether...