Chinese and Indian Public Pension Systems and Universal Old-age Security in Times of Rapid Demographic Changes

India and China have become countries of rapid economic growth and at the same time of socio-economic contrast.The classical old-age security arrangement has focused mainly on the formal sector and excluded a majority of the population working in the informal sector.Consequently, along the road of economic growth, increasing living standards and hi

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Acute chest pain - A prospective population based study of contacts to Norwegian emergency medical communication centres

Abstract Background Acute chest pain is a frequently occurring symptom in patients with medical emergencies and imposes potentially life threatening situations outside hospitals.Little is known about the epidemiology of patients with acute chest pain in a primary care setting in Norway, and we aimed to obtain more representative data on such patien

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