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題 名 | Health and Wealth |
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作 者 | Morone, James A.; Jacobs, Lawrence R.; | 書刊名 | 臺灣社會福利學刊 |
卷 期 | 5:1 民95.06 |
頁 次 | 頁149-157 |
分類號 | 548.2 |
關鍵詞 | 健康照護; 財富; 分配; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | Most Americans think they live in a nation brimming with opportunity. We are powerful, rich and openhanded. One penny out of every American dollar goes to charity –no other nation comes close. At the same time, people around the world see a country enthralled by hard-knuckle capitalism, a land of multi-millionaires and hungry children. Which is the real United States? Both. We tolerate enormous differences in wealth and poverty. A look at Americans’ health reveals the astonishing consequences. American girls are born with a life expectancy that ranks 19th in the world. Male babies rank 31st –in a dead tie with Belize and Dar es Salaam. Among the 13 wealthiest countries, the United States ranks last (or nearly last) in almost every way we measure health: infant mortality, low birth weight, life expectancy at birth, life expectancy for infants. The average American boy lives three and a half years less than the average Japanese baby –though the Japanese child is a lot more likely to grow up smoking cigarettes. The American adolescent death rate is twice as high as, say, England’s. These dismal American averages mask vast differences across our population. A male born in some sections of Washington DC has a life expectancy forty years lower than a woman born in rural Minnesota. In short, great differences in wealth match up to –put more bluntly, they create-- terrible differences in health....... |
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