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U.S. Life Expectancy Shorter Than 41 Countries
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/730f9cbd-b800-4461-83ea-aee4e70ad346/FBFD9072-C08E-4802-8691-B00895B62ACA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-life-expectancy-shorter-than-41.html" href="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-life-expectancy-shorter-than-41.html" style="font-size: 11px;">casesblog.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-life-expectancy-shorter-than-41.html">According to the <A href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifexpec.htm">National Center for Health Statistics</A>, the life expectancy in the U.S. is shorter than 41 countries including most of Europe and Japan.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-life-expectancy-shorter-than-41.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/casesblog.blogspot.com/img/8C03A1A5-1660-4264-B4EC-AA83631F7D86" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-life-expectancy-shorter-than-41.html">Dr. Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, comments that "something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-life-expectancy-shorter-than-41.html"><DIV>What are the likely causes?</DIV><BR />- High prevalence of obesity in the U.S.<BR />- Racial disparities<BR />- Relatively high infant mortality rate<BR /><DIV>- 45 million Americans lack health insurance</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-life-expectancy-shorter-than-41.html">The life expectancy ranges from 82.6 years in Japan to 39.2 years in Swaziland - <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Life_expectancy_world_map.PNG">see the map</A>. Many of the countries with the lowest life expectancies, e.g. Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Central African Republic, and Namibia, are suffering from very high rates of HIV/AIDS infection, with adult prevalence rates ranging from 10 to 38 percent (source: <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy">Wikipedia</A>).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FBFD9072-C08E-4802-8691-B00895B62ACA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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