Rescuing Your Health by Understanding Your Number
I don’t know if you have been paying attention to the latest statistics on the health of Americans but it is a pretty sad state of affairs. We are going backwards in our health and our life expectancy is decreasing. All in all for a highly developed country, we are dismal in the health department. Just to throw out a few statistics, prior to Covid we ranked 29th among the 38 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. We trailed Germany by 2.5 years, Canada by 3.2 years and France by 4 years. The US has a terrible performance in infant mortalitey. It ranked 33rd behind every European and Asian country. America’s best state Hawaii, has a 7 year mortality difference from our worst state. Even so, Hawaii trailed 25 OCED countries. (West Virginia would have placed dead last, behind Mexico). The Pandemic made it worse because …








