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== = Disease ﻿ and Health USA = The Gapminder Infant Mortality Life Expectancy Leading Causes of Deaths ||
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The Gapminder

 * Graph of Life Expectancy vs IMR**

-Regionally, USA is one of the counrties on top of the list. The US and Canada are the two countries with the highest life expectancy 79 & 81 respectively and the lowest infant mortality rate 6.7 and 5.7 respectively. -Compared to countries in the region like Haiti with a life expectancy of 61 and an infant mortality rate of 54 and Guyana with a life expectancy of 67 and an infant mortality rate of 47 the USA is doing quite well.
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 * Globally:**
 * -** Globally, the USA is doing quite well. It has an above average Life Expectancy of 79 (compared with the world (67.2)) and a below average rate of infant mortality of 6.7 (compared to the world(60)).

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Infant Mortality

 * -Current Infant Mortality rate: 6.7 deaths per 1000 births**

Description: Starting in 1990 the US had an Infant Mortality Rate of 10 deaths per 1000 live births and as the years went on the Infant Mortality Rate decreased at a steady rate and in 2000 the Infant Mortality Rate became 7 Deaths per 1000 live births and it has stayed at that number until 2006.

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Life Expectancy:

 * -Current Life Expectancy for Men: Life Expectancy at birth is 72**


 * -Current Life Expectancy for Women: Life Expectancy at birth is 79**



Description: Starting in the 1990s the USA has had a Life Expectancy of 75 as the years went on the Life Expectancy rised at a steady rate until in 2000 the Life Expectancy became 77. Then from there on again rising at a steady rate the Life Expectancy became 78 in 2006.

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Leading Causes of Death

 * **Disease** || **Number of total deaths by disease** || **% of total Deaths** || **Cause (may fit more than one category)**  ||
 * Coronary Heart Disease || 489,509 || 24.23 || Nutrition/Degenerative ||
 * Lung Cancer || 163,891 || 8.11 || Degenerative ||
 * Stroke || 160,112 || 7.92 || Accidental/Degenerative ||
 * Lung Disease || 122,486 || 6.06 || Degenerative ||
 * Alzheimers || 120,942 || 5.98 || Degenerative ||
 * Diabetes Mellitus || 76,109 || 3.77 || Degenerative/Nutrition/Water-Borne ||
 * Influenza and Pneumonia || 63,107 || 3.12 || Accidental/Water-Borne ||
 * Colon-Rectum Cancers || 62,092 || 3.07 || Degenerative ||
 * Breast Cancer || 47,461 || 2.35 || Degenerative ||
 * Hypertension || 46,694 || 2.31 || Life-Style ||
 * Road Traffic Accidents || 45,611 || 2.26 || Accidental ||
 * Kidney Disease || 45,569 || 2.26 || Degenerative ||
 * Lymphomas || 38,352 || 1.90 || Degenerative ||
 * Inflammatory/Heart || 33,942 || 1.68 || Nutrition/Degenerative ||
 * Prostate Cancer || 33,422 || 1.65 || Degenerative ||

The USA with a Life Expectancy of 79 is high compared to the rest of the world (being 67 years). It also has a low Infant Mortality rate compared to the world (around 60 deaths per 1000 live births) with an Infant Mortality rate of 6.7.The most problematic diseases are degenerative with the first four impactors being: - Coronary Heart Disease - Lung Cancer - Stroke - Lung Disease

The USA also has many fatal diseases that are caused by accidents and/or life style choices e.g. Stroke or Hypertension. This shows that the USA should be more strict on teaching people about how to live a healthy life style.

Since the USA has so many degenerative diseases it shows that it indeed is a developed country, but I do not think it is working hard enough on trying to lessen the deaths of these diseases (and others). One good solution that the USA could implement would be to try to teach people and steer them towards living a healthier life style. Another solution could be for them the USA to try to identify those that could be affected greatly by these degenerative diseases and try to monitor them slightly as to be able to treat the diseases before they get out of hand.

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