Essay On Infant Mortality In America

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America has always been looked upon as one of the best and the strongest countries in the world. When the United States was first discovered, many immigrants came seeking the “American Dream,” but as time went on they realized that was not a possibility for everyone. Living and building a life in America is not as exciting or easy as it may seem. America does not have the one of the best education systems, they are low in health care compared to other countries, the born to death ratio is a lot lower compared to other countries, they are the number one country in debt, and many other things that make them fall low in the ranks. For being considered the “best” country, one would think that we would be the best in more than just our economic system, and military. With that being said, is America really the best country to live in? The US used to be the country everyone wanted to live in because of the "American Dream" but now we are not close to being in the …show more content…

Each year in America, there are fewer children surviving birth than many other countries. This is evident in the CDC article, “International Comparisons of Infant Mortality and Related Factors: United States and Europe, 2010.” It is expressed in the article how “The U.S. infant mortality rate of 6.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births was more than twice that for Japan and Finland (both 2.3), the countries with the lowest rates. Twenty-one of the 26 OECD countries studied had infant mortality rates below 5.0” (MacDorman, Marain F., et al.). With this being said, in America there is about twice the chance of having a birth defect than in other countries. How could the best country in the world have such high chances of infant deaths? A country is based off of having the ability to grow its population and welcome new people unto the world. However, this is not an easy task to do when there are so many deaths at

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