At 06:52 PM Sunday 7/29/2007, William T Goodall wrote: >On 30 Jul 2007, at 00:23, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > At 03:08 PM Sunday 7/29/2007, William T Goodall wrote: > > > > > >> The USA is the most religious advanced country and the least healthy. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> Very religious countries like Nigeria seem to have very poor health. > > > > > > > > Is there any other common factor between those two statistics? > >
At 01:02 PM Wednesday 7/18/2007, Dan Minette wrote: >Subject: Re: U.S. health care > > > >[...] Let me give you an example from one of the clearest numbers for >which the US performs relatively poorly: infant mortality. > >The US's rate, about 7/5000 live births is far above the EU rate of >5.6/1000. This is a horrid statistic. > >We find, though, that the white, non-Hispanic rate is close to the EU: >5.8/1000. The black rate, on the other hand, is very high: 13.8. > >There is an obvious conclusion to be reached: this is a function of the >disparity of income between whites and blacks causing differences in medical >care. However, looking at different numbers, we see that it's not this >simple. The Hispanic rate (5.7/1000) is below that of white, non-Hispanics >at 5.7. While Hispanic households average more income than black households >(I'd guess it's because of the greater likelihood of a Hispanic household >containing multiple adults) its far closer to the black number than the >white, non-Hispanic. > >Further, one sees that even black women who completed college have a >significantly worse rate than white women who haven't completed grade >school. 10.6/1000 vs. 6.3/1000. These data indicate that something besides >income is affecting the situation. > >One good candidate, bemoaned by black ministers and physicians, is the >general distrust of physicians by the black community. They are far less >likely to use medical services than Hispanics or non-Hispanic whites, even >when it is available. That problem will not be solved by switching the >system of insurance. > >That's just one example of the complexity of the problem, there are a score. >There is no flip solution to the problems with the US health care system. > >Dan M. -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
