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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Webster Groves who wrote (18334)3/20/2007 4:26:55 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
The reason infant mortality is used as a guide to health care is because it correlates with availability of both pre- and post-natal care.

It correlates with that availability, but the correlation is far from perfect, esp. since other countries measure infant mortality in different ways. To begin to make a serious comparison you would have to either measure their infant mortality by our methods, or our mortality by their methods, or both.

Then once you do that you have to control for factors that aren't part of the health care system (assuming your comparing the health care systems).

Once you've got that done, get back to me.
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