A new study of 20 of the world's richest countries found it's dangerous to be born into the United States. The U.S. ranks last in child health outcomes compared to 19 other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations with similar levels of economic development and political structures, including Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, according to the study published in Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed health care journal. In fact, a child born in the U.S. is 76 percent more likely to die before their first birthday than infants born in other wealthy countries, and children who survive infancy have a 57 percent greater risk of death before reaching adulthood. The findings – based on a 50-year time-trend analysis from 1960 to 2010 – come despite America's greater per capita spending on health care for children, the study notes. "Every child should have the chance to live a full, healthy and safe life. This study shows that we are not living up to that promise and that we have fallen short of that promise for the last three decades," says lead author Ashish Thakrar, an internal medicine resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. "Compared to these 19 similar countries, we are an outlier: This is the most dangerous of wealthy, democratic countries to be born into." The U.S. kept pace with child mortality rates in its peer nations in the 1960s, but researchers found that changed just a decade later. By the 1970s, U.S. mortality rates were noticeably higher for Americans ages 1 through 19 and by the 1980s, U.S. children under a year were also showing greater rates of mortality https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-01-11/us-has-highest-child-mortality-rate-of-20-rich-countries?context=amp&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR2gkm-5-ESFlG1vCUVxLuI20hJcFQ2O9xwEwBoG4IdVM3OMik30vaewRc0
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