Health and wealth: our appalling health inequality reflects and reinforces society's other gaps.(Political inequality: health)
American Prospect, The, June, 2004 by Morone, James A.
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A LOOK AT AMERICANS' HEALTH REVEALS THE astonishing inequalities in our society. American girls are born with a life expectancy that ranks 19th in the world (in another survey they fall to 28th). Male babies rank 31st--in a dead tie with Brunei. Among the 13 wealthiest countries, the United States ranks last or nearly so in almost every way we measure health: infant mortality, low birth weight, life expectancy at birth, life expectancy for infants.
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