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I am always curious how data are compared between countries which will pretty much always have different reporting standards. For example, how does one doctor i

I am always curious how data are compared between countries which will pretty much always have different reporting standards. For example, how does one doctor in Germany attribute a death to smoking vs. a doctor in the US? The reason why I bring this up is I know of at least one metric where the definitions being used are quite disparate: child mortality. The US is very inclusive in counting pre-mature births as infant mortality whereas a lot of other countries would conclude these were not viable births and thus are not counted in the statistic.

gwright 6y ago
This is something I've seen called out before when these comparisons are trotted out but I don't see it mentioned in this article. Here is a blurb I found quickly (from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856058/) > First, many countries also have reporting requirements related to birth weight and may not report infants under 500 grams as live births (MacDorman and Mathews 2009). Second, the presence of assisted reproductive technologies has increased the frequency of multiple births, which have higher mortality rates.