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Norway ranks as world's best place to be a mother

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Unless you hate the cold.

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The ten worst places are all sub-Saharan African countries, with Haiti tied with Sierra Leone for the 169th spot.

Haiti is not Sub Saharan African

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The Duchess of Cambridge would disagree.

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Norway ranks as the world’s best place to be a mother, well ahead of the United States which dropped to the 33rd spot in the annual scorecard released by Save the Children on Monday.

Nonsense. This report was based strictly on the number of deaths in childbirth, and has nothing at all to do with "being a mother". Headline should read "Norway ranks as the sfest place to give birth".

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This report was based strictly on the number of deaths in childbirth

That's not what was reported: "based on five indicators related to maternal health, education, income levels and the status of women"

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The U.S. is going to have a higher neonatal mortality rate if for no other reason than because it is virtually the only country that counts as live births ALL babies, even the most premature and the smallest, who breath or show any evidence of life and for the most part takes extraordinary measures to save them.

The vast majority of the world either under-reports or completely ignores the infants that die soonest after birth or requires them to live to a certain age to be counted.

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The U.S. is going to have a higher neonatal mortality rate if for no other reason than because it is virtually the only country that counts as live births ALL babies, even the most premature and the smallest, who breath or show any evidence of life and for the most part takes extraordinary measures to save them.

If only that would be the whole reason for the difference...

"But these reporting differences cannot account for the full extent of the gap between countries, says Paul Wise, MD, a pediatrician at Packard Children's and a health policy analyst at Stanford. "The reporting differences are a minor part of the story but not an excuse for why the U.S has such a high mortality rate."

Gone too soon...

http://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2013fall/article2.html

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There are different ways of calculating it in which America’s numbers are not as bad, although reporting variations may explain only 40% or so of the total variance. So the picture is apparently not completely negative, particularly for the postneonatal period.

http://www.healthsystemtracker.org/2014/10/u-s-s-high-infant-mortality-may-be-explained-by-differences-in-data-as-well-as-health/

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/October-2014/America-Is-Very-Good-at-Treating-Vulnerable-Newborns-But-Not-Healthier-Babies/

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