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“As a child I had two countries I called home, Sweden and the US, and when I was 24 I also became a citizen of the ‘land of illness’; cancer and multiple sclerosis (MS) were my passage in. The cancer was the ‘good kind’ — caught early, easy to treat. “
– “The Land of Illness and the World of Health.” Medium, May 19, 2017.
“In the late 1990s, Lithuania had some of the highest death rates due to heart disease in Europe, marked by lack of coordination between primary care and specialists, inefficient systems with staff resources misaligned with need, and resulting poor patient outcomes and low quality indicators”
– “Patients and People at the Heart of Health.” NCDAlliance blog, November 2016