Inaccurate diagnosis, medication errors, inappropriate or unnecessary treatment, inadequate or unsafe clinical facilities or practices, or providers who lack training prevail in countries of all income levels.
This poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health, according to a new joint report by the OECD, World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank.
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Over the years vaccines have prevented countless cases of disease and saved millions of lives. Infectious diseases like polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella (German measles), smallpox, mumps, tetanus and rotavirus used to be common around the world. Today vaccines can prevent them.
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These diseases were previously eradicated or made to cause fewer deaths, but are now threatening to make the comeback of the century. It was not long ago that having something as simple as a common cold was a life-threatening condition. With the advancement of medicine and technology, many of these ailments were mostly eradicated around..
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