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. 2004 Dec 18;329(7480):1428-9.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1428.

Lessons from health during the transition from communism

Martin McKee  1 , Ellen Nolte
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Lessons from health during the transition from communism

Martin McKee et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

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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