The Los Angeles Times reports on how health workers in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. are hoping to mimic Iran's success in reducing infant mortality by recreating the country's low-cost rural healthcare delivery system in their own backyard. "Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom of most healthcare indexes. ... The state suffers the nation's worst infant mortality rate - about 50% higher than the national average - and the lowest life expectancy," the newspaper writes...
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