RT Journal
A1 Woolf SH, Aron LY
T1 The us health disadvantage relative to other high-income countries: Findings from a national research council/institute of medicine report
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD February 27
VO 309
IS 8
SP 771
OP 772
DO 10.1001/jama.2013.91
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.91
AB 
A new report1 from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (NRC/IOM) documents that US males and females in almost all age groups—up to age 75 years—have shorter life expectancies than their counterparts in 16 other wealthy, developed nations: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The scope of the US health disadvantage is pervasive and involves more than life expectancy: the United States ranks at or near the bottom in both prevalence and mortality for multiple diseases, risk factors, and injuries.