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Injustices in the US Health Care System.
The US maps from a recent PLoS Medicine research article (Ezzati, et al. e66) show not election returns, but disparities in life expectancy. In this month's Editorial (e208), the PLoS Medicine Editors argue that fixing injustices in the US health care system will require actively prioritizing health over financial gain.
Image Credit: Figure S2 in Ezzati M, Friedman AB, Kulkarni SC, Murray CJL (2008) The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States. PLoS Med 5(4): e66
Citation: (2008) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 5(10) October 2008. PLoS Med 5(10): ev05.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v05.i10
Published: October 28, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Ezzati et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The US maps from a recent PLoS Medicine research article (Ezzati, et al. e66) show not election returns, but disparities in life expectancy. In this month's Editorial (e208), the PLoS Medicine Editors argue that fixing injustices in the US health care system will require actively prioritizing health over financial gain.
Image Credit: Figure S2 in Ezzati M, Friedman AB, Kulkarni SC, Murray CJL (2008) The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States. PLoS Med 5(4): e66