Arneb wrote:
You and your smutty little brain you. I didn't even get what you were aiming at. No no, this is hard, tough social medicine.
Arneb wrote:
Arneb wrote:That's it EXACTLY. It't the reason why the 200-odd data points in the graph aren't a sample, they are all there is.
Arneb wrote:I love the graph because it shows that we in te "West" are deeply into a region of diminishing returns: Above 10.000 per annum, the gains in life years from higher income become weaker, and with a GNP of, say, Kazakhstan, Brazil or Argentina, you can provide a health care system that is rather close to optimal in terms of the "hard currency" of medicine, life expectancy.
BTW, the U.S., spending the most per capita on health care in the world (>$ 8300 p.a., a third more than the nearest neighbour) is 34th in the world in life expectancy....
I don't know why these things are flying through my head. Probably because I am a socialist....
On to you, Heid!
Lance wrote:I think I'm going to move to Lesotho. I can be a wise, old sage there.
Мастер wrote:Arneb wrote:That's it EXACTLY. It't the reason why the 200-odd data points in the graph aren't a sample, they are all there is.
Still a sample
Мастер wrote:So what kind of ultra-crappy country has a life expectancy just above 30?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... expectancy
2013 WHO study puts Sierra Leone dead last, at 46; Lesotho is the next one up, at 50. A UN 2009-2012 study put a bunch right around 46 (Central African Republic bringing up the rear, at 45.91).
Could the graph be old? (Let's say, several decades old?) Or might it be male life expectance? The same link above shows a "Global Burden of Disease" 2010 study, which puts male life expectance in Haiti at 32.5 (female 43.6), but the next one up (male or female) are female in Haiti and male in Central African Republic, tied at 43.60.
The CIA list at the bottom of my linked page doesn't show any countries in the low 30s, male, female, or overall.
Heid the Ba' wrote:Do these things take account of all deaths? So life expectancy at birth might change wildly if your country turns to shit when you are 18.
Arneb wrote:A little postscript on Mactep's last chart: Slate is discussing that the U.S. is really a very violent country, and they produce this graph - don't we know that one? It even shows the 9-11 bump, but all these interesting little fact get pasted over by very, very forceful smoothing of the curve.
Arneb wrote:Mental note: You can produce a line of best fit for ANY data...
Мастер wrote:... Many thanks (guess what German phrase gets changed to "Violin Dank" by the spellchecker?), this will be very useful..
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