6 Health and Wellness
Why does the US have the highest per capita expenditures among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and the worst outcomes? Wolff and Aron (2023) report that
Our life spans lag behind those of our peers; our life expectancy was already more or less flat, not growing; and most other countries bounced back from covid-19 in the second year of the pandemic, while we went into further decline.
Stein and colleagues (2022) suggest, however, that “global comparison can amount to nonsense due to obfuscation, misrepresentation, and omission of relevant information.” Thus, there is some controversy on this issue.
Nevertheless, the US suffers from a fragmented non-system ...
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