http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/01/10/us-worst-at-beating-death-from-preventable-illness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-worst-at-beating-death-from-preventable-illness The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere Thu, 24 May 2012 07:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/01/10/us-worst-at-beating-death-from-preventable-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-13936 home healthcarecare notes » Blog Archive » Things That Make You Go Ho Hum Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:07:54 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/01/10/us-worst-at-beating-death-from-preventable-illness/#comment-13936 [...] Health Affairs Bl [...] [...] Health Affairs Bl [...]

]]> http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/01/10/us-worst-at-beating-death-from-preventable-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-13908 Cows, Crows & Compost » Blog Archive » US Health Care Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:07 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/01/10/us-worst-at-beating-death-from-preventable-illness/#comment-13908 [...] Digg had this this link “The Economist:US Medical System Lags Behind Other Countries” that takes you to an article a little short on details. Medical News Today has this story: US Ranks Worst In Preventable Deaths Among 19 Industrialized Nations that provides some more details and a link to an abstract of the original article. Looking at the raw numbers, according to the Mediacl News Today site, the top 3 nations are 64, 71, 71 deaths per 100,000 people and the US is 109. The Health Affairs Blog for 10 Jan 2008 puts some perspective on the numbers. [...] [...] Digg had this this link “The Economist:US Medical System Lags Behind Other Countries” that takes you to an article a little short on details. Medical News Today has this story: US Ranks Worst In Preventable Deaths Among 19 Industrialized Nations that provides some more details and a link to an abstract of the original article. Looking at the raw numbers, according to the Mediacl News Today site, the top 3 nations are 64, 71, 71 deaths per 100,000 people and the US is 109. The Health Affairs Blog for 10 Jan 2008 puts some perspective on the numbers. [...]

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