Friday 31 August 2012

France, Germany, And The UK Outperform The US On Potentially Preventable Death Rates

The United States lags three other industrialized nations - France, Germany, and the United Kingdom - in its potentially preventable death rate, and in the pace of improvement in preventing deaths that could have been avoided with timely and effective health care, according to a Commonwealth Fund-supported study published as a web first online in Health Affairs. Between 1999 and 2006/2007, the overall potentially preventable death rate among men ages 0 to 74 dropped by only 18.5 percent in the United States, while the rate declined by nearly 37 percent in the U.K... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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