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packman

(16,296 posts) Wed Jan 17, 2018, 01:36 PM Jan 2018

Odds against a child born in U.S. - 600K excess child deaths

A child born in the United States has a 70 percent greater chance of dying before adulthood than kids born into other wealthy, democratic countries, a new study has found.

The research, published in the journal Health Affairs on Monday, shows that the United States lags far behind peer countries on child health outcomes. It estimates that, since 1961, America’s poor performance accounts for more than 600,000 excess child deaths — deaths that wouldn’t have happened if these kids were born into other wealthy countries.

“In all the wealthy, democratic countries we studied children are dying less often then they were 50 years ago,” Ashish Thakrar, the study’s lead author, said. “But we found that children are dying more often in the United States than in any similar country

https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states?ref=hvper.com

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Odds against a child born in U.S. - 600K excess child deaths (Original Post) packman Jan 2018 OP

Because... uh... Freedom! ck4829 Jan 2018 #1

You know the RWNJs couldn't care less Ohiogal Jan 2018 #2

Partly Due To Minority Child Deaths erpowers Jan 2018 #3

ck4829

(35,079 posts)

1. Because... uh... Freedom!

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 01:38 PM

Jan 2018

Ohiogal

(32,036 posts)

2. You know the RWNJs couldn't care less

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 02:27 PM

Jan 2018

As long as the kids that are dying are overwhelmingly brown.

Yet they will scream that they are pro life.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)

3. Partly Due To Minority Child Deaths

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 05:16 PM

Jan 2018

I am not trying to blames minorities, but this is partly due to the deaths of minority children. More has to be done to find a way to prevent minority mothers and their children from dying.

This article also made me think of the speech from the show Newsroom. So many people in America say every day that America is the greatest country on the planet, but we lag behind so many developed countries in so many categories. America is the richest and most powerful country and it may still be the best country on Earth, but it needs to do a great deal of work to make itself better. There are far too many things happening in America that should not be happening in the greatest country on Earth.

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