Question: In the United States people often brag about being the richest country in the world and have the best health care. If this is true, where would you expect the United States to rank in its rate on infant mortality?
A: The U.S. has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world.
B: The U.S. has the second lowest infant mortality rate in the world behind Sweden.
C: The U.S. is 29th in the world on infant mortality.
D: The U.S. was 12th in 1960 and has improved to 5th in 2004.
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Answer is C - The U.S. is 29th in the world in infant mortality according to the CDC.
ReplyDeleteThe United States ranked 29th in the world in infant mortality in 2004, compared to 27th in 2000, 23rd in 1990 and 12th in 1960, according to a new report from CDC′s National Center for Health Statistics.
The U.S. infant mortality rate was 6.78 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2004, the latest year that data are available for all countries. Infant mortality rates were generally lowest (below 3.5 per 1,000) in selected Scandinavian (Sweden, Norway, Finland) and East Asian (Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore) countries. Twenty-two countries had infant mortality rates below 5.0 in 2004.
We Americans should be absolutely ashamed of ourselves. There is something terribly wrong in the U.S. with our values and priorities.
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