Nina Edwards

Americans' life expectancy continues to fall behind other countries'

United States continues to lack behind other nations when it comes to life expectancy obesity, smoking, traffic fatalities, and homicide are not to blame. Peter Muennig and Sherry Glied at Columbia University, looked at health spending; behavioral risk factors obesity and smoking. Researchers discovered that other countries have experienced greater gains in the United States. The survival rates for men and women ages 45 and 65 in the US have fallen to the other 12 countries over the past 30 years. U.S. ranking for 15-year life expectancy for 45-year-old men declined, from 3rd in 1975 to 12th in 2005, according to studies.

Its shocking that the U.S is behind in these things . Obesity & smoking rates are higher in the U.S than any other country. The U.S. health care system has been failing Americans for years. It is unacceptable that the U.S. obtains so much less than should be expected from its unusually high spending on health care relative to other countries.

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/10/07/americans_life_expectancy_continues_to_fall_behind_other_countries.html