January 27, 2018

US not good for children's survival

Popular Resistance -One of the authors of a recent study of U.S. children’s deaths told an interviewer that, “The U.S. is the most dangerous of wealthy, democratic countries in the world for children … Across all ages and in both sexes, children have been dying more often in the U.S. than in similar countries since the 1980s.” The report was published online January 8 in Health Affairs.

According to the authors, “we examined mortality trends for [20] nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for children ages 0–19 from 1961 to 2010 using publicly available data.” They discovered that, “Over the fifty-year study period, the lagging US performance amounted to over 600,000 excess deaths.”

“While child mortality progressively declined across all countries, mortality in the US has been higher than in peer nations since the 1980s,” they indicate. “From 2001 to 2010 the risk of death in the US was 76 percent greater for infants and 57 percent greater for children ages 1–19. During this decade, children ages 15–19 were eighty-two times more likely to die from gun homicide in the US.”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Generally because of the Drugz War and the devastating economic pressures on the lowest working-class families.

Either they get hit by a stray bullet from a business dispute among drug dealers, or a cop's bullet, or Dad suddenly goes mad and offs his family and himself because he feels such an effing failure being unable to find work.