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MRI in France: The French paradox

✍ Scribed by Robert Lavayssière; Anne-Elizabeth Cabée

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
65 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
1053-1807

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Abstract

Although France is a modern, developed country, which spends nearly 10% of the gross national product on healthcare and has a highly praised level of medicine, the number of modern imaging scanners, such as CT (595), MRI (182), and PET (5), is quite low when compared to other European countries. Politics and a long‐standing tradition of centralization are prominent among reasons for such an underdevelopment. This situation has resulted in another French paradox not linked to wine consumption. The French life expectancy is very high, but the number of imaging equipment is very low. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2001;13:528–533. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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