Comment by DANmode
10 hours ago
As in:
- Life expectancy at birth is lower than nearly all other high-income countries
- Preventable and treatable mortality rates are well above the OECD average
- Adult obesity rate is the highest among peer nations
- Infant mortality rate is worse than most developed countries
- Maternal mortality rate is dramatically higher than other wealthy nations
- Suicide rate exceeds the OECD average
- Drug overdose death rate is the highest in the developed world
- Prevalence of multiple chronic diseases is unusually high
- Physical inactivity rates exceed those of peer countries
- Healthcare spending per capita is the highest globally while outcomes lag peers
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