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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (64761)5/9/2008 9:04:09 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 543351
 
Apparently a good stat. Thanks for brining it up.

The US isn't an outlier in this stat.

Of course this stat still isn't a very good one for measuring the health care system or esp. the health care payment system, since there are many other factors that determine this stat.

But it does at least seem to be a consistent stat across the different countries, rather than something that uses the same name to describe different things in different places.



To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (64761)5/10/2008 6:38:28 AM
From: Lane3  Respond to of 543351
 
A better metric for comparing childhood mortality is the perinatal death rate. The perinatal period commences at 22 completed weeks of gestation and ends seven completed days after birth.

That looks promising. I assumed that the compilers and publishers of the world data were using a flawed factor because nothing better was available. But something better does seem to be available given that you were able to post it.


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