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- Title
Measuring the health of nations: updating an earlier analysis.
- Authors
Nolte, Ellen; McKee, C Martin
- Abstract
We compared trends in deaths considered amenable to health care before age seventy-five between 1997-98 and 2002-03 in the United States and in eighteen other industrialized countries. Such deaths account, on average, for 23 percent of total mortality under age seventy-five among males and 32 percent among females. The decline in amenable mortality in all countries averaged 16 percent [corrected] over this period. The United States was an outlier, with a decline of only 4 percent. If the United States could reduce amenable mortality to the average rate achieved in the three top-performing countries, there would have been 101,000 fewer deaths per year by the end of the study period.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2008, Vol 27, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
1544-5208
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.58