Italy's poor go to the hospital more

Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 06:35 in Health & Medicine

Despite free public healthcare, Italy's poor are more likely to end up in hospital with avoidable conditions, new research shows. This pattern, reported today in the online open access journal BMC Public Health, mirrors findings from a number of different healthcare systems around the world, although to date fewer studies have been completed in Europe...

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