Wednesday, May 31, 2006
A Research Study Uncovers the Truth that US Health is in the Wake of Canada’s
Source: boston.com
Americans are more liable than Canadians to have diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis, as per Harvard Medical School examination of a telephone survey of American and Canadian adults.
The study arrived less than a month after other researchers informed that middle-aged, white Americans are much sicker than their counterparts in England.
Canada's national health insurance program is at slightest part of the reason for the variations initiated in the study, said Woolhandler, an advocate for such a program in the United States. She said “Universal coverage makes it easier for more Canadians to get disease-preventing health services”.
James Smith, a RAND conglomerate researcher who co-authored the American-English study, said, on the other hand, that his research found that England's national health insurance program did not explain the difference in disease rates, for the reason that even Americans with insurance were in worse health.
The innovative study found that 6.7 percent of Americans and 4.7 percent of Canadians accounted having diabetes; 18.3 percent and 13.9 percent, respectively, description of high blood pressure; and 17.9 percent and 16.0 percent thought they had arthritis. The Americans also reported more heart disease and chief hopelessness, but that dissimilarity was too small to be statistically considerable.
About 21 percent of Americans said they were obese; match up to with 15 percent of Canadians. And about 13.5 percent of the Americans admitted to an inactive lifestyle, vs. 6.5 percent of Canadians. Yet, more Canadians were smokers -- 19 percent, contrast with about 17 percent of Americans.
Source: boston.com
Americans are more liable than Canadians to have diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis, as per Harvard Medical School examination of a telephone survey of American and Canadian adults.
The study arrived less than a month after other researchers informed that middle-aged, white Americans are much sicker than their counterparts in England.
Canada's national health insurance program is at slightest part of the reason for the variations initiated in the study, said Woolhandler, an advocate for such a program in the United States. She said “Universal coverage makes it easier for more Canadians to get disease-preventing health services”.
James Smith, a RAND conglomerate researcher who co-authored the American-English study, said, on the other hand, that his research found that England's national health insurance program did not explain the difference in disease rates, for the reason that even Americans with insurance were in worse health.
The innovative study found that 6.7 percent of Americans and 4.7 percent of Canadians accounted having diabetes; 18.3 percent and 13.9 percent, respectively, description of high blood pressure; and 17.9 percent and 16.0 percent thought they had arthritis. The Americans also reported more heart disease and chief hopelessness, but that dissimilarity was too small to be statistically considerable.
About 21 percent of Americans said they were obese; match up to with 15 percent of Canadians. And about 13.5 percent of the Americans admitted to an inactive lifestyle, vs. 6.5 percent of Canadians. Yet, more Canadians were smokers -- 19 percent, contrast with about 17 percent of Americans.
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