NationMaster - American Health statistics

Abortions	1,210,880	[2nd of 19]
Access to sanitation	100%	[10th of 129]
Breast cancer incidence	21.2 per 100,000 females	[17th of 26]
Child maltreatment deaths	2.2 per 100,000 children	[1st of 27]
Circulatory disease deaths	265 deaths per 100,000 peopl	[5th of 18]
Daily smokers	17.5%	[29th of 30]
Death from cancer	321.9 deaths per 100,000 peopl	[9th of 16]
Drug access	95%	[27th of 163]
Heart disease deaths	106.5 per 100,000 people	[13th of 26]
Hospital beds	3.6 per 1,000 people	[27th of 29]
Maternal mortality	8 per 100,000	[121st of 136]
Obesity	30.6%	[1st of 29]
Plastic surgery procedures	90,992	[1st of 34]
Spending > Per person	4,271	[1st of 133]
Suicide rate > Females	4.4 per 100,000 people	[40th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	4.5 per 100,000 people	[17th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males	19.8 per 100,000 people	[30th of 80]
Suicide rate > Young males	21.9 per 100,000 people	[15th of 43]
Teen birth rate	64	[1st of 40]
Teenage pregnancy	494,357 births	[1st of 26]

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SOURCES: UNHDR; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Health Organization; UNICEF; OECD Health Data 2003 and Health Data 2002. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia's Health 2002 ; OECD Health Data 2005; OECD Health Data 2004; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; OECD; UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.; International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; annual figures:WHO databank, National Bureaus of Statistics. Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division (1995). World population prospects. The 1994 revision. New York: United Nations. Partly computations: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Clinic, University of W?rzburg, Germany; WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994; United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994; UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

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COMMENTARY

Ally Clarke
9th June 2005

Not everybody has access to sanitation in this so very wonderful country. What about those people who wander the streets with nowhere to go, begging for food and spare change? How many of those people have access to sanitation? Can they go and have a bath or a shower whenever they feel like it? How many of them can turn on the taps in their clean homes and have fresh running water? Not many. And whose fault is that?

infidel (TEXAS)
10th July 2007

"Not many. And whose fault is that?" - Ally Clarke

Sadly, in most cases, their own fault. Helping these people should be done in a voluntary manner, not through government force. People want to help. They dislike being made to do so by law.

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