U.S. worst in preventable death ranking
I’ve noticed that many Americans consider us a ‘civilized’ country. Although civilized we may be, we apparently don’t compare to other countries when it comes to preventable deaths. Researches tracked deaths that could have been prevented by available and timely health care and found that the USA was the worst out of the 19 countries studied.
France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.
If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year, according to researchers writing in the journal Health Affairs.
