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its surprising that USA has a high infant mortality rate, since they have a good healthcare and claim to be the wealthiest nation in the world.

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Is interesting that one baby born in the U.S is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of life as one born in Hungary , Poland and Slovakia.

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Is interesting that one baby born in the U.S is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of

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Is interesting that one baby born in the U.S is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year

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Is interesting that one baby born in the U.S is nearly three times as likely to die during her first

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Is interesting that one baby born in the U

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I think that a MEDC, such as the United States, has many resources like good healtchare and a good lifestyle overall. It's surprising and almost shocking to realize that a country like this has such high infant mortality rate. On the other hand even though families do get good health care at hospitals when they get home they don't receive that help they did get at a hospital.

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After reading the article, for sure i'm surprised because USA is an MEDC so I didn't expect a high infant mortality(6.1).A country with a high economy with the availabilty of having the enough resources, good health care and so on suffers from a high rate of infant mortality.

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After reading the article, I am surprised because

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After reading the article, I am auprised because

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As the US is a wealthy country with good healthcare it would be easy to expect a low infant mortality rate but after reading the article we can see how the US is massively different from LEDC's in terms of infant mortality rate as in many LEDC's only the infants of rich mothers live long to have a healthy life while those of poor mothers don't; which is what is happening in the US suprisingly.

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After reading the article based on infant mortality and looking how USA has a higher rate that a child would not survive in their first year of life. ''A baby born in the U.S. is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of life as one born in Finland or Japan. That same American baby is about twice as likely to die in her first year as a Spanish or Korean one.'' by looking at this statement we can see how one of the top wealthiest country in the world and MEDC and with a lot of resources that can provide health care to citizen, is the country with a higher infant mortality rate than any of the other 27 wealthy countries.

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I both am and am not surprised by the content of the article. I am surprised just because of the fact that this is something you wouldn't expect from a country that is rich enough and has the enough resources to support and maintain babies. However I am not surprised, as mortality differences in the U.S are largely due to socioeconomic differences. As babies born to disadvantaged mothers in the US are more likely to die. Also policies prevalent in other privileged countries similar to the U.S account for differences in mortality rates, ex: Europe's home nurse visit policies, to bring healthcare professionals into babies homes in their first year of life).

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After reading the article I am certainly surprised, because how USA being an MEDC having a excellent health care can have such a high rate of infant mortality. However not everything in the USA is MEDC, there are some places in which people can access or afford a good health care, or the place where they live in is not a good environment.
As well USA is a country which is 20 times bigger than most of the countries which appear there, this means more people therefore more deaths per 1000.

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I am surprised that an MEDC as the USA has such a high Infant mortality rate. Especially when the country has such a good healthcare and has the best resources available and is the wealthiest nation in the world.  "A baby born in the U.S. is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of life as one born in Finland or Japan."

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I was actually surprised since we where talking about how MEDC's have low death rates since they are more developed and are able to have more access to health care, also the country has is rich and has a great economy making this even more surprising. There are lots of resources and healthcare good healthcare services.
]Why are you surprised? Remember MEDC's have disparities across the country.

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I was not particularly surprised that the usa was the country with the highest death rate on that list since it is a violent country.  Although I did not think that the infant mortality rate for such a highly developed country would be as  high as its appeared in the article.

What were the main reasons for the infant mortality being so high?
Miscarriage or still birth death are accounted for even though survival under 22 week or under 500g are not expected live. The usa also has a relatively high post neonatal mortality rate.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/29/our-infant-mortality-rate-is-a-national-embarrassment/