> general satisfaction of the people
Different groups of people have different ideas of what "general satisfaction" is. Hence, such cross-group studies are pretty suspect.
Different groups of people have different ideas of what "general satisfaction" is. Hence, such cross-group studies are pretty suspect.
This is no good because different companies use different criteria for infant mortality. For example, the US leads the world in trying to save premies, and does well at it. But the failures are counted as infant mortality. Other countries categorize premie death as a miscarriage.
Some societies do not count a baby as an infant until it has survived its first year.
> life expectancy difference
Criminality, drugs, tobacco, alcohol and obesity strongly affect life expectancy. It's an error to blame it all on the health care system.