A report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released on Tuesday, found that "Asia-Pacific countries have seen steady gains in key health indicators since 1970, but developing nations there are still far behind standards in the industrialised world," Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C reports. OECD looked at "[h]ealth systems for 27 Asia-Pacific economies," according to the news service (12/21). The report found that life expectancy in 22 countries in the Asia-Pacific region rose more than 14 years since 1970 to 71.6 years in 2008, Xinhua reports... 
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