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Originally Posted by The Arbiter
I doubt we have the highest infant mortality rate, that makes no sense considering we deliver in hospitals. Obesity is a problem, yes.
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In defense of Arbiter's point, we don't have the lowest infant mortality in the world, we just have the lowest of developed nations.
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Our infant mortality is higher because we attempt to save more children, through medical technology, and some do regrettably die. This negatively affects our infant mortality whereas most other countries cannot or do not include these figures. The child may simply die in the womb and not be apart of the statistic. Because we do so much more to save everyone, the stats go down.