| Child mortality in the US is indeed higher than UK and comparable countries https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality-igme?tab=... But maternal death (The number of person who die from pregnancy-related causes) is also more than 10 times higher than comparable countries and was raising for 20 years while other comparable countries were lowering it. It seems an even worse picture of the situation. Adult women dying at 10 times the rate of OECD countries because of pregnancy. It will probably raise again given the new limitations/bans on abortion (accessible abortion is correlated with lower maternal death) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-maternal-deaths... Life expectancy in the US is quite lower than comparable countries and stopped growing (but it might be related to the 8 to 10 times higher homicide rate than other OECD countries) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart... Death rate from HIV/AIDS is nearly 6 times higher than the UK and it’s not lowering anymore (it has plateaued at a much higher level than comparable countries) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hiv-death-rates?tab=chart... Is there a health measure that you can find where the US is better or at least at the same level than say UK or at least France? (which is sadly for us French not the best in class…) Not a trick question, I’m curious to see if the US have some outlier health measure that it aces, sometimes it happens! |
I appreciate that, no worries.
Without looking I would go for any cancer statistic, as the UK is often terrible in those[1]. So, I did a search of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators[2] (as they're the ones used to compare countries) to see if I was right. (As an aside, I look at these every few years and the last time I looked I found some surprising stats, like the ones about child mortality in the States, but occasionally there's a more complex reason behind a poor statistic[3]). Anyway, it seems I was (sadly) right:
Those are the age-standardised survival (%) spread across 3 different time periods (I didn't want to have to reproduce the whole thing so you don't get everything labelled!:)Anyway, those are the first two I looked at. I've done this before and honestly, the US system holds up very well. I'm sure it does even better if it's adjusted for economic class - which obviously opens up a barrel of probably quite fair criticism. I know that some on here complain about how the US can bankrupt you if you get sick, but I'd take that over the UK's system in a heart beat. Not sure about France, though it does seem to have a more sane system than the UK.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201111165643/https://www.nhs.u...
[2] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=51882
[3] https://academyhealth.org/node/1891
Edit: missed off a markdown link ref