Monitoring health is key for identifying priorities in public health planning and improving healthcare services. Life expectancy has conventionally been regarded as a valuable indicator to compare the health status of different populations. However, this measure is simply the mean of the distribution of the length of life and, as such, neglects individual disparities in health outcomes.
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A modification of the "skin window" method is proposed for investigation of delayed hypersensitivity in patients with tumors. The principle of the modified method consists in an antigen injection into the site of lesion. Patients with tumors showed a strikingly lowered lymphoid cells and eosinophilic and basophilic granulocytes than the controls.
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