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Lessons from health during the transition from communism
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Lessons from health during the transition from communism
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Countries that are in transition from communism provide the opportunity for comparing the effects on health of communist and democratic political systems
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The impoverished town of Muyanuk on the Aral Sea has the highest tuberculosis rate in the former Soviet Union Credit: DIETER TELEMANS/PANOS
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