May 082013
Report finds US death rate highest in the industrialized world.
from AlterNet
"America has the highest death rate for newborns on their first day in the industrialized world, according to the annual 'Surviving the First Day' report published by Save the Children, an international aid group. An estimated 11,300 babies don't make it past their first day in the United States. 'This is 50 percent more first-day deaths than all other industrialized countries combined,' write the authors of the report.
"A baby born in America is four times more likely to die on their first day than a child born in countries with the lowest rate of mortality. Iceland, Sweden, and Luxembourg have the lowest rate of first day mortality, while Canada and Switzerland rank as the second and third worst places to be a newborn, after the US."
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