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Fact Based List:
The US ranks at the bottom of 19 industrialized countries in preventable deaths (per 100,000 population)
Submitted By Kevin Gemulla, Created 11/18/2010 - 14:37
- France (65)
- Japan (71)
- Australia (71)
- Spain (74)
- Italy (74)
- Canada (77)
- Norway (80)
- Netherlands (82)
- Sweden (82)
- Greece (84)
- Austria (84)
- Germany (90)
- Finland (93)
- New Zealand (96)
- Denmark (101)
- United Kingdom (103)
- Ireland (103)
- Portugal (104)
- United States (110)
Source: Commonwealth Fund, Health Affairs, World Health Organization
Source URL: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/
Notes: The Washington Post recently reported on a study by the Commonwealth Fund published in the journal Health Affairs, that the United States ranks at the bottom of 19 industrialized nations in the number of preventable deaths by conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, stroke, influenza, ulcers, pneumonia, infant mortality and appendicitis