The Problem Of Scarce Resources IELTS Reading Answers
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The Problem Of Scarce Resources
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Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
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1 | iv | Every health system in an economically developed society is faced with the need to decide (either formally or informally) | Paragraph A;
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2 | i | that people have a basic right to health-care as a necessary condition of a proper human life. | Paragraph C;
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3 | iii | The state has no obligation to provide a health-care system itself, but to ensure that such a system is provided. | Paragraph D;
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4 | v | The second set of more specific changes that have led to the present concern about the n of health-care resources stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD1 countries | Paragraph E;
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5 | B | Just at the time when it became obvious that health-care resources could not possibly meet the demands being made upon them, | Paragraph E;
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6 | B | Thus in OECD countries as a whole, health costs increased from 3.8% of GDP1 2 in 1960 to 7% of GDP in 1980 | Paragraph E;
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7 | A | after the 1939-45 World War, it was assumed without question that all the basic health needs of any community could be satisfied, at least in principle; the ‘invisible hand’ of economic progress would provide. | Paragraph B;
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8 | B | It is also accepted that this right generates an obligation or duty for the state to ensure that adequate health-care resources are provided out of the public purse. | Paragraph D;
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9 | NO | People are not in a position to exercise personal liberty and to be self-determining if they are poverty-stricken, or deprived of basic education, or do not live within a context of law and order. | Paragraph C;
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10 | YES | Just at the time when it became obvious that health-care resources could not possibly meet the demands being made upon them, people were demanding that their fundamental right to health-care be satisfied by the state. | Paragraph E;
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11 | YES | The second set of more specific changes that have led to the present concern about the n of health-care resources stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD1 countries, accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes | Paragraph E;
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12 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
13 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
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