Friday, November 4, 2011

Also in shock

          The editorial; No Excuse for U.S. Infant Mortality Ranking by Katherine Boccieri is very similar to the way I think about this Infant mortality rank. We really should be among the higher rankings considering how developed our country is as far as technology and medical knowledge compared to other countries. I also agree that this is mostly our fault seeing as we spend so much as a country on healthcare but dont care enough to caution and educate infant parents. This is definately something we should work on as a country in order to improve this lack of informed and educated guardians of the infants.
          On the other hand the increase in minorities and low income people with worse living conditions who account for most of the infant mortalities can't always have the best healthcare available which causes our decrease in infant mortality rank. Also while our minority population is increasing our rank, less developed countries are adopting our technology and medical knowledge in addition to their traditions which in a way could or is evening out the playing field in the infant mortality ranks. Regardless i completely agree that the United States Infant mortality rank should be alot better and improving, as well as educating and informing our infant's guardians or caretakers.