exception of the upper classes, people cannot afford such type of social protection. For most people living in poor developing countries illness still represents a permanent threat to their income earning capacity. Beside the direct costs for treatment and drugs, indirect costs for the missing labour force of the ill and the occupying person have to be shouldered by the household.
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