| ??? 03/31/07 01:50 Read: times |
#136230 - Infant Mortality Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Steve Taylor said:
The consequences of this unemployment are rather different, and explain why infant mortality for one factor, is higher in the US than Europe - when you are unemployed, you aren't going to be forced into bankruptcy by a medical bill, you will be treated, often with more success than in the US, this despite the fact that the US spends nominally more than twice as much on health care for fewer of its citizens than the Europeans. I must disagree with your link of unemployment, health insurance and infant mortality in the US. All US states provide a basic level pre-natal and post-natal care for children. The challenge is to get some mothers to take advantage of these programs. We have a much more diverse population than the UK (though you seem to be trying hard to catch up). Much of our infant mortality problem is concentrated in certain sub-cultures in the US. For example, drugged out pregnant mothers tend to produce sick children. And changing behavior in subcultures is quite hard to do. |
