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Top Countries With a "Healthy Life Expectancy"Results from a previous study completed by the World Health Organization ranked the United States 24th in our ability to have a "Healthy Life Expectancy". The top ten countries with the longest and healthiest life expectancy at the time of the report were:
1. Japan
2. Australia 3. France 4. Sweden 5. Spain 6. Italy 7. Greece 8. Switzerland 9. Monaco 10. Andorra Notice that the United States isn't listed there? Have you seen "Sicko", Michael Moore's documentary on our health care system? The United States is rated 47th in the industrialized world for its health care system... just under Slovenia! And while the third killer disease is stroke, the third cause of death in the United States is actually our health care! From doctor misdiagnosis, hospital infections and errors, medication errors, negative effects of prescriptions, and unnecessary surgeries... 225,000 people die each year from these iatrogenic causes. The World Health Report 2005 is called "Make Every Mother and Child Count". It says that this year almost 11 million children under five years of age will die from causes that are largely preventable. Among them are 4 million babies who will not survive the first month of life. At the same time, more than half a million women will die in pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. The report says that reducing this toll in line with the Millennium Development Goals depends largely on every mother and every child having the right to access to health care from pregnancy through childbirth, the neonatal period and childhood. The World Health Report, first published in 1995, is WHO's leading publication. Each year the report combines an expert assessment of global health, including statistics relating to all countries, with a focus on a specific subject. The main purpose of the report is to provide countries, donor agencies, international organizations and others with the information they need to help them make policy and funding decisions. The report is also offered to a wider audience, from universities, teaching hospitals and schools, to journalists and the public at large - anyone, in fact, with a professional or personal interest in international health issues. For more information on the World Health Reports and to see back issues, click here. Next, let's discuss Excess and Deficiency... |