"Switzerland's appeal doesn't just depend on its corporate laws, " she said, citing the country's ability to innovate, its educated population and its quality of life as other important attractions.
In the survey of France, the U.K., Spain, Germany and Italy, more than half the population said the quality of the health care they received was either not good at all or had declined.
ACOs are a combination of primary care, specialists and hospitals tied to a defined population, accountable for the quality, outcomes and cost of health care received by that population.
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China's demand for fertiliser is expected to be particularly buoyant as a result of its huge population and the poor quality of its arable land.
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Labour MP Frank Field and Conservative Nicholas Soames - who campaign on the issue of immigration - said it was "more evidence of the pressure that uncontrolled immigration will place on our population, and therefore our quality of life".
In the end, the technology that can be the most disruptive is one that can improve the quality of life for an aging population.
Technology has enabled us to provide quality healthcare education to a student population that otherwise would not have had convenient and ready access to this type of instruction.
Each Beacon Community has elected specific and measurable improvement goals in each of three vital areas for health systems improvement: quality, cost-efficiency, and population health.
Bloomberg hailed the population rise as a measure of the city's quality of life, crediting factors he often cites as key accomplishments on his 11-year watch: crime rates at historic lows, rising life expectancy and a public school system that has seen an aggressive, if not uncontroversial, overhaul.
Even relatively water-rich countries of the region, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan and Papua New Guinea, now face water supply and quality constraints in their major cities because of population growth, growing water consumption, environmental degredation, damaging agricultural activities, poor management of water catchment areas, industrialization, and groundwater overuse.
The rising baby boomer population can then expect to face the considerable challenge of getting quality healthcare on a timely and consistent basis.
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The findings suggest that overall population aging and rising obesity led to a decline in the quality of livers being harvested, and ultimately to an increase in the percentage of unused organs, the researchers write.
"I am 100 percent convinced that if we are going to have comprehensive affordable quality coverage for all and spread the risk amongst the entire population, you have to have individual mandates, " he says.
To help students master English, you need a high-quality learning environment and very dedicated teachers, proportionate to the student population.
Population growth, urbanisation and climate change are putting stress on the quantity and quality of water supplies, a concern for businesses that rely on water.
It is these organizations that have grown from modest beginnings to reach wide swaths of the population with new opportunities, and these unsung heroes who will continue to work to improve the quality of life for their fellow Afghans long after the cameras and war reporters are gone.
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The group, born between 1980 and 2000, eats out more than the rest of the population and will pay more to go to restaurants that offer gourmet-style food, high-quality beers and liquor, and that cater to socializing.
While the state's control of the media is a turn-off for the 25% to 30% of the population who don't actively support United Russia, a bigger incentive to leave is the poor quality of life in Russia.
Approximately half of the city's 13m population (part of a 20m conurbation) lives in the slums areas of unregulated, poor-quality structures, usually built of mud or brick and asbestos sheets, with no sanitation.
Diversity is on the increase, but almost more significantly is the population growth -- families moving to the South from other parts of the country in search of an improved quality of life and job opportunities.
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