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Health Gap at End of Life Is Now Wider in US Than Any Other Country


Humans today are living longer than ever before, but how many of those added years are spent in good health? A data-crunching survey covering 183 member nations of the World Health Organization has now confirmed what some scientists feared: while years are being added to most people's lives, healthy life is not being added to most people's years.

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