Re: OT Health Care

On May 13, 2:44 pm, "HeyBub" <hey...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

* The survival rate for many chronic diseases (breast cancer, for example)
is MUCH greater in the U.S. than in Canada.

Not really many, breast cancer survival is one of the very few health
indicators where the US is near the top. In almost all other health
indicators you may want to pick, Canadian outcomes are better, as are
other countries’. The US is at the bottom of rich countries when it
comes to life expectancy and infant mortality. Some third world
countries like Cuba and Costa Rica do almost as well as the US.

If you want to see actual data on a number of indicators, you can go
to the World Health Organization’s web site where they have data on
most countries and look at how the US compares to other countries.

http://apps.who.int/whosis/data/Search.jsp?countries=[Location].Members

The figures for the “CONCORD” study show that the US had the second
best breast cancer survival rate in the world in the late 80s-early
90s and Canada was number 3, but they were pretty close. However,
blacks in the US had considerably lower survival rates. What some
people don't like to point out is that the No. 1 country in terms of
breast cancer survival rates is that pesky commie island to the south
of Florida. Yup, Cuba.

For a news story, see:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080716/cancer_statistics_080716?hub=MSNHome

For a copy of the original “CONCORD” study
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/pdf/CONCORD.pdf

A more recent study comparing Ontario & California in the late 90s
early 21st Century, high and middle income Americans seems to be below
Canada, although not statistically significant. However, lower income
Americans had much lower survival rates. You can see this paper at:

http://www.uwindsor.ca/users/g/gorey/KevinGorey.nsf/831fc2c71873e46285256d6e006c367a/84830734438db38b852572c20063b93c/$FILE/AnnEpidemiol2009.pdf

So as long as they’re not black and/or poor, American women with
breast cancers live about the same time as Canadian women.

Luigi
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