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WalterBrighttoday at 7:14 AM0 repliesview on HN

> OCED average for infant mortality

This is no good because different companies use different criteria for infant mortality. For example, the US leads the world in trying to save premies, and does well at it. But the failures are counted as infant mortality. Other countries categorize premie death as a miscarriage.

Some societies do not count a baby as an infant until it has survived its first year.

> life expectancy difference

Criminality, drugs, tobacco, alcohol and obesity strongly affect life expectancy. It's an error to blame it all on the health care system.