detroit - higher infant mortality rates than botswana.

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/30/3228461/child-mortality-detroit/

"The city of 713,000 is the only U.S. city with upwards of 100 deaths per 100,000 children. In what one doctor declared a “public health emergency,” 120 out of every 100,00 children in Detroit died in 2010. The infant mortality rate — which is higher than the rates in Panama, Romania, and Botswana — is another prominent issue. Between 2000 and 2011, 2,300 infants died within their first year."

what. a. shithole.
 
What is the cause of said death rates though? Also, is this only in detroit hospitals or throughout the metropolitian area? Because we have some of the best hospital care in the world here, but not necessarily in the physical city limits of Detroit.
 
Ghost of Watermark said:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/30/3228461/child-mortality-detroit/

"The city of 713,000 is the only U.S. city with upwards of 100 deaths per 100,000 children. In what one doctor declared a “public health emergency,” 120 out of every 100,00 children in Detroit died in 2010. The infant mortality rate — which is higher than the rates in Panama, Romania, and Botswana — is another prominent issue. Between 2000 and 2011, 2,300 infants died within their first year."

what. a. shithole.
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Wouldn't you be tempted to give up the ghost if you were born into that shithole?
 
Infant mortality rate is a bogus statistic as it relates to the delivery of healthcare.

First there are a multitude of societal factors and secondly countries don't don't use the same standard as to what counts as infant death so comparing countries is futile. Of course the left has propagandized people with these bogus stats for years so I understand why people think they matter

If you want to compare healthcare across countries the you want to look at something where delivery of care actually matters. Look at cancer death rates. In that area the US smokes everyone. Even shithole Detroit is better than the rest of the industrialized world.

It is so distressing that people accept bogus statistics as fact and not question the methodology.


No wonder this country is so screwed
 
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