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A Comparison of the Health Sector in Kuwait and Somalia

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The Least Developed and the Oil-Rich Arab Countries

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This chapter relies heavily on information from the World Health Organisation in its 1987 publication Seventh Report on the World Health Situation. It will show that development possibilities for each Arab country vary, depending on available and existing resources. A comparison of Kuwait and Somalia illustrates the vast gap between two health systems based on similar principles, yet with very different available resources.

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Authors
  1. Alberto Klaas
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  2. Mara Galaty
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Vienna, Austria

    Kunibert Raffer (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden

    M. A. Mohamed Salih (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

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© 1992 Kunibert Raffer and M. A. Mohamed Salih

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Klaas, A., Galaty, M. (1992). A Comparison of the Health Sector in Kuwait and Somalia. In: Raffer, K., Salih, M.A.M. (eds) The Least Developed and the Oil-Rich Arab Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12558-6_15

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