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Meaning of enfermedad catastrófica




Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz

enfermedad catastrófica
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A catastrophic illness, also known as high-cost disease, is a devastating and often deadly or incurable disease, or which may result in an inability of for life, and whose treatment, for being expensive, can lead to many economic hardship. Catastrophic diseases include cancer, AIDS and ebola.

  



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