U.S. health is lousy compared with peer nations, report says
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Re: U.S. health is lousy compared with peer nations, report says
#2Darn. I should've posted this NY Times article instead:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/health/americans-under-50-...
It provides a little more detail.
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#3The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.
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#4The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, i…
If you dig into the statistics [1] you'll see that for the average Joe on the street, daily quality of life in America is below that of all other Developed nations, and is comparable to the upper-end of Developing nations.
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#5The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, i…
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#6The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, i…
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There's been a fair bit of research that even when you control for income, affluent people living in societies with high levels of inequality fare more poorly than affluent people in societies with lower levels of inequality.
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#7I found the following blurb from the article interesting as it tries to make the information relevant the gun control debate:
Gun use emerged as a factor: Americans were seven times more likely to die in a homicide and 20 times more likely to die in a shooting than their peers. In all, two-thirds of the mortality disadvantage for American men was attributable to people under the age of 50 -- and slightly over half of that resulted from injuries...
However, why is this article interesting to the Hacker News crowd?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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There's been a fair bit of research that even when you control for income, affluent people living in societies with high levels of inequality fare more poorly than affluent people in societies with lower levels of inequality.
That's very interesting - can you provide a reference?
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#10No mention of corn and petroleum subsidies.