PEDIATRICS Vol. 63 No. 3 March 1979, pp. 388
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SKEWED PEDIATRIC PRIORITIES

D. Morley

Although three quarters of the population in most developing countries live in rural areas, three quarters of the spending on medical care is in urban areas, where three quarters of the doctors live. Three quarters of the deaths are caused by conditions that can be prevented at low cost, but three quarters of the medical budget is spent on curative services, many of them provided for the elite at high cost.