Mother’s Day is a few days away. This is the one day a year
when people celebrate and honor the woman of the family who brings children
into the world and cares for everyone in the family. In that light, Forbes Living TV reviews where the U.S.
ranks in material and child health.
Save the Children, a global non-profit organization whose
goals are to improve the health of children around the world, ranked 179
countries based on five criteria: maternal health, children’s well-being,
education, economic, and political status. The United States ranked 61st
globally in maternal health coming in worse than any developed country in the
world. Women in the U.S.
face a 1 in 1,800 risk of maternal death. It also ranked 42nd in
children’s well-being. Countries that ranked at the top were Norway , Finland ,
Iceland , Denmark and Sweden .
Forbes Living also notes from the report that infant
mortality rates in capital cities are not that great: Washington , D.C. U.S.
is 6.9 per 1,000 live births. That means that an American child is just as
likely to die before age five as a child in Bosnia
or Serbia .
The 16th Annual
State U.S. still has some of the best healthcare
in the world. We must take excellent care of expectant moms, newborns, infants
and children.
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