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To: DanD who wrote (64828)	5/10/2008 2:19:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542904

But how does Normalizing for violent-- non-health-related deaths prior to age 44 (murder, car wreck, etc.) -- in the US make the life expectancy of some other countries go down? They normalize all countries as if they had the same percentage of such deaths, so countries with very low levels of such deaths, show as having lower adjusted life expectancies than their unadjusted life expectancies. Only countries with the average amount or at least very close to the average amount would have no change in their life expectancies. Its not perfect, there are other things that could be adjusted for that they don't, and there are other ways to make adjustments. And of course there are many other issues besides life expectancies. But its still useful information when trying to compare health care systems.