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*[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026853.800-children-go-unvaccinated-as-insurers-refuse-to-pay.html Market failure for immunisation in US] (NS)
 
*[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026853.800-children-go-unvaccinated-as-insurers-refuse-to-pay.html Market failure for immunisation in US] (NS)
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:"FATAL diseases are threatening a comeback among American children as insurers fail to meet the costs of immunisation.
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:Half the doctors who responded to a survey by Gary Freed of the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor said they had delayed purchasing new vaccines against childhood diseases like meningitis. Twenty per cent of family doctors said they were considering halting vaccinations of privately insured children."
  
 
== Images ==
 
== Images ==

Revision as of 11:44, 5 January 2009

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"FATAL diseases are threatening a comeback among American children as insurers fail to meet the costs of immunisation.
Half the doctors who responded to a survey by Gary Freed of the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor said they had delayed purchasing new vaccines against childhood diseases like meningitis. Twenty per cent of family doctors said they were considering halting vaccinations of privately insured children."

Images

Collecting images for the article page.

Some concepts are very difficult to portray pictorially - esp. 'lack' of certain things which simply leads to things being done inefficiently - not fatally or disastrously so, but certainly well below ideal or optimum.

The images below are more relevant to the developing world (v. important of course), but also want to convey that many of these problems afflict the so-called developed nations too.

Lacking:

Slums built on swamp land near a garbage dump in Jakarta
Starving child
Collecting water in Mwamanongu Village, Tanzania

Need:

Pharmaceuticals
Quality education

Pile

Jakarta slumlife.JPG

Crash.jpg

Deforestation

Women washing their clothes in a ditch by the side of the road

Cubicles

Urban sprawl & [1]