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WTF happened in Russia in 2012? 🙁
Lol, everything from Russia is fake news to make them look better than evil capitalists. Did you take a look at how some of their hospitals look like? This is made up shit.
Just look at the propaganda data they released during corona, once they claimed they had twice as much confirmed recovered people as officially infections.
10.9‰ mortality rate in a country as rich as the US is a disgrace.
I don’t trust any statistics from Russia at all.
It’s because we count the statistic differently. Same thing with maternal mortality.
International comparisons are very difficult without standardization of reporting methodologies.
TLDR: The US will count premature babies towards mortality numbers, whereas other countries won’t.
Cool now do mortality rate for men aged 18-25.
For anyone interested in the reasons behind the US number being famously higher than developed nation peers, it basically comes down to a few things.
– Higher risk factors of the parent: obesity rate is higher than every other developed country. 40+ pregnancies are also a factor but that’s similar across all developed countries.
– Education/Wealth inequality: Higher educated + wealthy individuals have comparable or even better outcomes than developed countries, but the poor/uneducated have much worse outcomes. This also translates to different racial outcomes since Hispanic/black tend to be poorer and less educated and have higher infant mortality.
– Post-neonatal deaths: this is actually the biggest difference. At birth the US is pretty comparable especially if you control for health of the parents, but the gap between the US and other countries spreads at 6 weeks-1 year, increasing throughout that time, especially for those impacted by the previous points.
The postnatal issue seems like the biggest opportunity to improve care but because it’s in the parents hands it would be difficult to fix without major educational campaigns and even laws that force parents to meet certain milestones legally in that first year, which would be controversial.
The standard “we need free healthcare” doesn’t seem like the magic wand here, I think it needs to be free but mandatory healthcare/check ins + childcare best practice education for the first year, specifically for high risk patients (low income demographics) but that’s also likely unpopular since some would see that as a handout to the poor that can’t afford kids in the first place (encouraging more births by those that argue this). But if the kids are already coming…seems like we should be doing something.
I remember coming home with our first child we were like “oh we just go home now and that’s it?” And we have all the resources necessary to have kids. So imagine someone young, uneducated, poor, just kinda coming home and they have to figure out feeding/sleeping/recognizing signs of trouble, etc.
![Infant mortality rate (deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births) in Russia and United States (by race), 1960 — 2022 [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/qifcy4uceskd1-1920x1024.png)
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Infant mortality rate (deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births) in Russia and United States (by race), 1960 — 2022
Source links:
CDC National Center for Health Statistics
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm#Mortality_Multiple
Human Mortality Database
https://www.mortality.org
Made with Ms Excel (calculations and charts) instruments
WTF happened in Russia in 2012? 🙁
Lol, everything from Russia is fake news to make them look better than evil capitalists. Did you take a look at how some of their hospitals look like? This is made up shit.
Just look at the propaganda data they released during corona, once they claimed they had twice as much confirmed recovered people as officially infections.
10.9‰ mortality rate in a country as rich as the US is a disgrace.
I don’t trust any statistics from Russia at all.
It’s because we count the statistic differently. Same thing with maternal mortality.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161013103132.htm
International comparisons are very difficult without standardization of reporting methodologies.
TLDR: The US will count premature babies towards mortality numbers, whereas other countries won’t.
Cool now do mortality rate for men aged 18-25.
For anyone interested in the reasons behind the US number being famously higher than developed nation peers, it basically comes down to a few things.
– Higher risk factors of the parent: obesity rate is higher than every other developed country. 40+ pregnancies are also a factor but that’s similar across all developed countries.
– Education/Wealth inequality: Higher educated + wealthy individuals have comparable or even better outcomes than developed countries, but the poor/uneducated have much worse outcomes. This also translates to different racial outcomes since Hispanic/black tend to be poorer and less educated and have higher infant mortality.
– Post-neonatal deaths: this is actually the biggest difference. At birth the US is pretty comparable especially if you control for health of the parents, but the gap between the US and other countries spreads at 6 weeks-1 year, increasing throughout that time, especially for those impacted by the previous points.
The postnatal issue seems like the biggest opportunity to improve care but because it’s in the parents hands it would be difficult to fix without major educational campaigns and even laws that force parents to meet certain milestones legally in that first year, which would be controversial.
The standard “we need free healthcare” doesn’t seem like the magic wand here, I think it needs to be free but mandatory healthcare/check ins + childcare best practice education for the first year, specifically for high risk patients (low income demographics) but that’s also likely unpopular since some would see that as a handout to the poor that can’t afford kids in the first place (encouraging more births by those that argue this). But if the kids are already coming…seems like we should be doing something.
I remember coming home with our first child we were like “oh we just go home now and that’s it?” And we have all the resources necessary to have kids. So imagine someone young, uneducated, poor, just kinda coming home and they have to figure out feeding/sleeping/recognizing signs of trouble, etc.
Why isn’t Russia broken out by race/ethnicity?