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Er, that's World Health Organisation to you and me.
Today's Le Monde headline is about a recent broadranging survey of depression in France. Among other interesting points, depression seems to become more prominent when one is unemployed - good one, Sherlock. More interesting, the rates in general seemed high - it's the 3rd cause of mortality in the country. This lead me to a bit of inquiry - is it that high because the suicide rate is high, or because other causes of death are low?
Yes.
Found a few good sites on health statistics. First I looked at US, France, England. For your noggin's thunkin'*, here's a distillation of some interesting findings:
*Also known in the german, Noggenzthunken.
France has fewer per capita abortions than the US. yes, Catholic country - but a society where it is actually considered a more normal alternative than it is here. Judging by what is easily readable on their newspapers, I really expected it to be a lot higher - really it's around 2/3s of the US.
Hmm...I wonder why....
Well, it COULD be because the teen pregnancy rate is around a 5th of the US'es.
We spend, per capita, quite a bit more on health care than either the french or british - and that's taking into account both public and private spending. Possibly because...We die of diabetes, heart attacks, and other body-weight/nutrtion causes a great deal more often (NOT suprising). Of course, the French smoke something like twice as much as we do. Also, NOT suprising.
On the other hand, less of us are killing ourselves. Of course, in that area the UK has us all beat.
What do we learn? Eat like the french, smoke like...well, not at all, and, sorry to say it - keep a stiff upper lip and pass the tea, luv!
Today's Le Monde headline is about a recent broadranging survey of depression in France. Among other interesting points, depression seems to become more prominent when one is unemployed - good one, Sherlock. More interesting, the rates in general seemed high - it's the 3rd cause of mortality in the country. This lead me to a bit of inquiry - is it that high because the suicide rate is high, or because other causes of death are low?
Yes.
Found a few good sites on health statistics. First I looked at US, France, England. For your noggin's thunkin'*, here's a distillation of some interesting findings:
*Also known in the german, Noggenzthunken.
France has fewer per capita abortions than the US. yes, Catholic country - but a society where it is actually considered a more normal alternative than it is here. Judging by what is easily readable on their newspapers, I really expected it to be a lot higher - really it's around 2/3s of the US.
Hmm...I wonder why....
Well, it COULD be because the teen pregnancy rate is around a 5th of the US'es.
We spend, per capita, quite a bit more on health care than either the french or british - and that's taking into account both public and private spending. Possibly because...We die of diabetes, heart attacks, and other body-weight/nutrtion causes a great deal more often (NOT suprising). Of course, the French smoke something like twice as much as we do. Also, NOT suprising.
On the other hand, less of us are killing ourselves. Of course, in that area the UK has us all beat.
What do we learn? Eat like the french, smoke like...well, not at all, and, sorry to say it - keep a stiff upper lip and pass the tea, luv!
