avalind

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   by avalind 13y ago

   At least in Sweden, no anasthesia is very much the standard option.
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   by avalind 14y ago

   The difference in heterogeneity between the US and the other countries has probably increased from 1950 to today. But I also suspect that some of this difference in life-expectancy between the US and the 14 others is that it might be easier
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   by avalind 14y ago

   Totally Agree with you. I would think that a big reason as to why the U.S has the rankings it has is the heterogeneity of the US population.
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   by avalind 14y ago

   Yes. But I'm not sure I follow here, both Sweden and the US use the same criteria to report a live birth (All live births are reported) and seem to use the same definition of Infant mortality rate, (Death before first birthday). I fail to s
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   by avalind 14y ago

   This report[1] claims that the difference in reporting child mortality isn't the chief cause of the difference in infant mortality between the U.S and similarly developed countries. Instead the claim that most of this difference is due to
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   by avalind 15y ago

   The difference between letters and full articles is described here [1]. I don't think that one should view the length of the paper or whether it's published as a Letter or an article as a marker for its scientific importance. For instance,