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CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
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Mikael 31st January 2012 |
Ah, they forgot Sweden: 2,74 :) Universal health insurance since 1955, but that has probably nothing to do with the rate. :) |
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3Dee 16th October 2011 |
What abou sri lanka? |
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Linnaea 1st September 2011 |
Paulus, you have unwittingly provided evidence which actually refutes your claim that the poor showing of the Us is not related to lack of health care. '...disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight' are indeed amongst the major causes of infant death - but those two factors are precisely the ones which can be prevented by good ante-natal care, as is provided by every country with universal health care - something which the US, alone amongst all the major developed countries, does not have. |
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Dom 7th June 2011 |
I rarely leave comments on articles, but your article encouraged me to compliment your writings. Thanks for the read, I will tweet your post and come back occasionally. http://www.extremehealthusa.com/ |
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BALTIMORE 8th January 2011 |
NYC MOM, Here is a country comparison given by the CIA. On there list we fall in the 178th place. However, It all depends with age group your looking at. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html Another website is the Center for Control Disease (CDC) they offer mortality data. The CDC stat'se the US is number one for child homicides aged 1-4, and we are 4th place for Infanticides. PS. the reason I know this information is because I'm a graduate student specializing in Criminal Justice, and I did a thesis on Infanticide. |
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Paulus 28th March 2010 |
Joan writes: "The USA is 45th from the bottom/best, and Cuba's mortality rate is lower/better than ours. This is because the USA does not have universal health care." No, it is not because we do not have universal health care. "Problems of definition and measurement, however, hamper cross-national comparisons of health statistics. Alternative measures of infant mortality may provide better information but cannot completely compensate for differences among countries in the overall rates of reporting of adverse pregnancy outcomes. For example, very premature births are more likely to be included in birth and mortality statistics in the United States than in several other industrialized countries that have lower infant mortality rates." "In countries where physicians are more aggressive about attempting to resuscitate very premature newborns--of which the United States is probably the leading example—extremely small neonates are more likely to be classified as live births than in countries with less aggressive resuscitation policies." You can find it all here: http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=6219&type=0 In summary: One of the leading causes of infant mortality in the U.S. is "disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight." In the US, doctors are able to deliver and try to save babies with incredibly low birth weights. In most other countries, extremely premature babies are not recorded as live births and thus do not contribute to their infant mortality rate. |
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Kerry (Alaska) 13th September 2007 |
What do you expect? A nation that pushes forced vaccination and mandatory compliance, all in the name of perceiced health, you can see why we have such a high mortality rate. If you can not see that the underlying cause of poor health is listening to those people who claim it is all in the name of your health that you must be protected? Whos life is it anyway? |
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Edria Murray Staff Editor 2nd June 2005 |
In response to Sophie, The crude birth rate (which measures the number of children born each year per thousand population) and the total fertiliy rate (number of children per woman can be found in the people category. Birth rate and life expectency are the major factors affecting total population. Countries with a high birth rate and low life expectency generally have a large number of young people. Most developed countries have low birth rates. Globally 89 countries (including all European and North American countries except Faeroe Islands, Albania and Mexico) have fertility rates below population replacement. This means that their populations would be shrinking if there was no immigration to these countries. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 29th March 2005 |
A review by researchers at Pakistan’s Aga Khan University, published in The Lancet, reported that babies born in hospitals in the developing world are up to 20 times more likely to develop infections than those in developed countries. In developing nations, infections during pregnancy and after birth cause an estimated 1.6 million deaths annually, three-quarters of them in southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Many infections are caused by methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), while another major killer is the organism Klebsiella pneumoniae, which kills an estimated 320,000 infants and unborn babies each year in the developing world. Up to 70 percent of these infections are believed to be caused by superbugs – bacteria resistant to antibiotic treatment. Neonatal deaths account cause more than a third of all child mortality across the world. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 4th March 2005 |
In 2002, a total of 28,034 deaths of children under one year old occurred in the United States, according to the National Vital Statistics Reports. The infant mortality rate was 7.0 infant deaths per 1000 live births, up from 6.8 per 1000 in 2001. Deaths of infants aged zero to 27 days increased by 4.4 percent from 2001 to 2002. The postneonatal mortality rate (deaths to infants aged 28 days to one year per 1000 live births) remained constant at 2.3. The 10 leading causes of infant death were: 1) congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities; 2) disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight; 3) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); 4) maternal complications; 5) complications of placenta, cord and membranes; 6) unintentional injuries; 7) respiratory distress of newborn; 8) bacterial sepsis of newborn; 9) diseases of the circulatory system; 10) intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia. These 10 causes accounted for 68.4 percent of all infant death in the U.S. There were significant increases in deaths attributed to low birth rate (5.3 percent) and maternal complications (14.2) percent. |
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Edria Murray Staff editor 28th February 2005 |
Infant mortality has many many causes. The three most common are:
All of these occur more often when maternal health and nutrition are poor. In many cases, causes are multiple with low birth weight being a major factor. Infant mortality is highest in developing nations. These countries generally have a low
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