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Abstract:
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Numbers can't provide food, shelter, medical treatment, or security. But well-executed statistical analyses can help to identify programs that are successful in providing these basic needs under challenging circumstances---poverty, corruption, social and political instability, etc. Although the Health and Human Rights Report Card is a work in progress, and is admittedly quite limited in scope, it does provide a starting point to identify states that appear to be out-performing their economic peers on key health indicators. Further research could then be conducted within these states to uncover successful strategies for fulfilling the right to health at high levels of population coverage under poor economic conditions. More generally, the report card should be viewed as an example of how statistics can be used to identify the most effective strategies for improving health outcomes.
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