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To: Brumar89 who wrote (550960)	2/18/2010 9:39:44 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

And no other country has those things..??? You are pathetic.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (550960)	2/22/2010 1:53:14 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574854

Traffic accidents, homicides, and differences in defining infant deaths vs miscarraiges. Duh. And not just those things. There is also the fact that the ranking isn't a measure of quality of health care treatment, or even health care outcomes, in the first place. Instead of focusing purely on such things the WHO study gives significant weight to things like health care equality (if a change makes things better for those who receive the best health care, while not hurting those "at the bottom" in terms of receiving health care, than it should be counted just as a plus, but the WHO study would add in a minus for reduced equality), and things like how well a country lives up to its potential to provide good health care (so giving arbitrary simple numbers to health care quality points, if a country was deemed to be able to provide 6 and provided six, it would get a bonus points relative to country thought to be able to provide 10, but that only provided 8.)