“Health for All” in a Least-Developed Country

INTRODUCTION

Two-thirds of the world’s 6 billion people live in countries defined as “developing” by the World Health Organization (WHO), and approximately half of the world’s population lacks access to adequate primary healthcare. Consequently, life expectancy in developing countries is about 52 years as compared with 80-82.5 years of age in the world’s most economically advanced nations.

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Awareness and Use of the Prostate-Specific Antigen Test: Discussion

The present study, which relied on the 2000 NHIS, indicates that in that year almost two-thirds of African-American men aged >45 who did not have prostate cancer had heard of the test and almost half had had the test.

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