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Article: Addressing health, quality-of-life issues: one of the most promising developments in recent years is the use of franchising to meet pressing health and quality-of-life issues.(TRENDS)
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- Franchising World
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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We are a fortunate people in the United States. We have the luxury to be going through a debate on whether or not to change the best health-care delivery system in the world. Our discussion may be lively and occasionally even colorful but in the end, regardless of the outcome, most American families will still have access to the medical care they and their families need.
Unfortunately, that is not the debate going on in major areas of the globe. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 30,000 children under the age of five die each day, and almost two-out-of-three of these children will die from common-and easily-preventable or treatable diseases and ...