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newton kabiddles
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| how can we be more intelligent? |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| newton kabiddles wrote: |
| how can we be more intelligent? |
You're long past hope these days, I'm afraid. |
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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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I had already discovered this, but thought it might be tangentially connected, primarily because I seem to recall Big_Bird saying better to be in the US for birthing than Korea.
Maybe not. Korea's infant mortality rate is lower than the US's. I suspect a great deal of that has to do with the familial support and overall education level. (Among other things.)
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| http://us.mcafee.com/apps/mash2/en-us/redir.asp?langid=1&affid=0-79&installtype=force&systempopup=true]US among worst in world for infant death |
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By The Associated Press Sat Nov 10, 7:14 PM ET
The rate at which infants die in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial groups, and the country stacks up poorly next to other industrialized nations.
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In 2004, the most recent year for which statistics are available, roughly seven babies died for every 1,000 live births before reaching their first birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. That was down from about 26 in 1960.
Babies born to black mothers died at two and a half times the rate of those born to white mothers, according to the CDC figures.
The United States ranks near the bottom for infant survival rates among modernized nations. A Save the Children report last year placed the United States ahead of only Latvia, and tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia.
The same report noted the United States had more neonatologists and newborn intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom � but still had a higher rate of infant mortality than any of those nations.
Doctors and analysts blame broad disparities in access to health care among racial and income groups in the United States.
Not surprisingly, the picture is far bleaker in poorer countries, particularly in Africa. A 2005 World Health Organization report found infant mortality rates as high as 144 per 1,000 births � more than 20 times the U.S. rate � in Liberia. |
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