Infants used to have a higher risk of dying than 80-year-olds
September 16, 2024
Infants used to have a higher risk of dying than 80-year-olds
Posted by eortizospina
7 comments
The situation is still skewed. Look at how much money is spent on medical costs for 80-year-olds versus for infants.
What was going on in Sweden in the early 1800s that it went up?
The thing that actually jumps out at me the most is how early it started dropping.
And this is why health orgs have defined buckets for studying public health!
Might make sense intuitively to label children as anyone under 18, until you realize the wide variety of different needs and risks associated with different ages of child.
I remember this being a huge issue with those studies that found the leading cause of death for children in america was guns. Lots of pro-gun people whined that the study was only for 2-17 year olds or something like that and when you incorporated 0-18 it wasn’t actually guns. But like, yeah, obviously, not many 16 year olds are dying from SIDS or being left in a hot car, so maybe lets leave that demo out
Antivaxers are trying to change that trend
US infant (first year of life) mortality rate = .0054 (5 deaths per 1000) and 80-year old mortality rate = .064 (64 deaths per 1,000). Data current from the CDC data and the SSI actuarial data.
It is absolutely remarkable that in just 200 years we went from losing 1 in 5 newborns to losing 1 in a hundred or more
7 comments
The situation is still skewed. Look at how much money is spent on medical costs for 80-year-olds versus for infants.
What was going on in Sweden in the early 1800s that it went up?
The thing that actually jumps out at me the most is how early it started dropping.
And this is why health orgs have defined buckets for studying public health!
Might make sense intuitively to label children as anyone under 18, until you realize the wide variety of different needs and risks associated with different ages of child.
I remember this being a huge issue with those studies that found the leading cause of death for children in america was guns. Lots of pro-gun people whined that the study was only for 2-17 year olds or something like that and when you incorporated 0-18 it wasn’t actually guns. But like, yeah, obviously, not many 16 year olds are dying from SIDS or being left in a hot car, so maybe lets leave that demo out
Antivaxers are trying to change that trend
US infant (first year of life) mortality rate = .0054 (5 deaths per 1000) and 80-year old mortality rate = .064 (64 deaths per 1,000). Data current from the CDC data and the SSI actuarial data.
It is absolutely remarkable that in just 200 years we went from losing 1 in 5 newborns to losing 1 in a hundred or more