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How Does Access To Healthcare Affect Life Expectancy?, Yara Mahmoud
How Does Access To Healthcare Affect Life Expectancy?, Yara Mahmoud
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
Access to health care is a pressing issue in the United States, whether it be the cost of care or not having enough of it. To emphasize the importance of this topic, this paper assesses the impact of access to health services on life expectancy. A comparison is made between the universal health systems in France and Spain and the mixed system in the United States. Even though the United States spends the most on health care in the world, its statistics fall below those of other developed countries. After addressing other risk factors, it was found that individuals under …