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Francis A. Miniter

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From: "Francis A. Miniter" <famini...@comcast.net>

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:47:33 -0400

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Subject: Re: OT: How is Canadian health care worse than US again?

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Andrew Barss wrote:
> Francis A. Miniter <famini...@comcast.net> wrote:

> : One measure of the effectiveness of a health care system is
> : the average life expectancy of the citizens of a country.
> : By that measure, Canadians live to be about 80.3 years old
> : (14th in the world) and Americans to be about 78 years old
> : (45th in the world).

> I wonder how much that figure is skewed (as it almost often
> is in these reports) by differences in infant mortality, which
> are about 50% higher in the US than Canada
> (6.37/thousand in US, 4.63 in Canada).

> So, if one counts just people surviving infancy, the difference between
> countries is somewhat smaller than the life expentacy numbers suggest.
> I wonder how much the Canadian advantage is.

> -- Andy Barss

Infant mortality is covered in the WHO statistics too. pp.
23 et seq.
US - 7 per 1,000
Canada - 6 per 1,000

Francis A. Miniter

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