United States trails other rich countries on almost every measure of health, report finds

BMJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. n1955
Author(s):  
Owen Dyer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Report ◽  
Rich Countries

scholarly journals The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Fisman ◽  
Shang-Jin Wei
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Illicit Trade ◽  
Reporting Incentives ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Illicit Trafficking

We empirically analyze the illicit trade in cultural property and antiques, taking advantage of different reporting incentives between source and destination countries. We generate a measure of illicit trafficking in these goods by comparing imports recorded in United States' customs data and the (purportedly identical) trade recorded by customs authorities in exporting countries. This reporting gap is highly correlated with corruption levels of exporting countries. This correlation is stronger for artifact-rich countries. As a placebo test, we do not observe any such pattern for US imports of toys. We report similar results for four other Western country markets. (JEL F14, K42, Z11, Z13)

scholarly journals Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Peri
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human History ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
College Educated ◽  
Steady Force

Immigration has been a steady force acting on population and employment within countries throughout human history. Focusing on the last four decades, we show that the mix of immigrants to rich countries has been, overall, rather balanced between college and non-college educated. The growth of immigration has been driven by immigrants from nonrich countries. The economic impact of immigration on receiving economies needs to be understood by analyzing the specific skills brought by immigrants. The complementarity and substitutability between immigrants and natives in employment, and the response of receiving economies in terms of specialization and technological choices, are important when considering the general equilibrium effects of immigration. In the United States, a balanced composition of immigrants between college and noncollege educated, together with the adjustment of demand and technology, imply that general equilibrium effects on relative and absolute wages have been small.

scholarly journals 2006 United States Animal Health Report

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Domestic Animal ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
The Third ◽  
Health Report ◽  
Animal Resources ◽  
Insight Into

This is the third such report that provides a wide-ranging review of the health of our Nation’s domestic animal resources. The report highlights significant epidemiologic events of 2006 and provides insight into the Nation’s animal health surveillance activities. In addition, the report presents an update on programs, both new and existing, that strive to maintain healthy livestock, poultry, and aquaculture populations.

Conditional Convergence and the Rise of China: A Political Economy Approach to Understanding Global Power Transitions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Beckley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Transition ◽  
Conditional Convergence ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
The Rise Of China

Abstract Many scholars predict that China will soon challenge the United States for global primacy. This prediction is largely based on power transition theory, which assumes that rising challengers inevitably “converge” economically and militarily with reigning hegemons. Economists, however, have shown that convergence is a conditional process: sometimes poor countries grow faster than rich countries, but sometimes they fall further behind. Determining whether a US-China power transition will occur in the years ahead, therefore, requires specifying the drivers of long-term economic growth and assessing each country's growth prospects in light of these factors. This article does exactly that. Drawing on recent research in economics, I show that there are three main growth drivers—geography, institutions, and demography—and that the United States scores highly across these factors whereas China suffers from critical weaknesses. These results suggest that a US-China power transition is unlikely.

scholarly journals The Lessons of TPP and the Future of Labor Chapters in Trade Agreements

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Santos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Compensatory Mechanisms ◽  
Rules Of Origin ◽  
High Point ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rich Countries

Linking labor standards to trade agreements out of dual concern for poor working conditions in low-wage countries and unfair labor competition in rich countries reached its high point in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The US labor movement’s opposition to TPP shows the disenchantment with this agenda. Other elements of the agreement were seen as equally important to workers: investment, rules of origin, procurement, and currency manipulation. These new frontiers for labor advocacy in trade agreements highlight the need to re-balance how trade agreements treat capital and labor. A promising, though overlooked, feature of TPP was the pressure the US exercised to encourage domestic labor reforms—formally through a side agreement in the case of Vietnam and informally in the case of Mexico. The US withdrawal set those reforms back. The hardening opposition to TPP also made clear that rich countries’ workers expected losses from trade will not be made palatable in the absence of effective domestic safety nets and compensatory mechanisms. TPP’s reception in the United States was a resounding rejection of liberal globalization as we know it, and the CPTPP, unfortunately, does not seem to chart a different path.

scholarly journals 2004 United States Animal Health Report

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Animal ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Veterinary Services ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Health Report ◽  
Health Quality

This report—a national overview of domestic animal health in the United States for 2004—is a direct result of an external review of the Nation’s animal health safeguarding system. The Animal Health Safeguarding Review assessed the performance, processes, and procedures used to ensure the success of the mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)–Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) program: to protect and to improve the health, quality, and marketability of our Nation’s animals, animal products, and veterinary biologics.

scholarly journals 2008 United States Animal Health Report

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
Veterinary Services ◽  
Health Report ◽  
The U.S

This publication highlights APHIS Veterinary Services’ (VS) programs, events, and initiatives aimed at maintaining healthy livestock, poultry, and aquaculture populations. In addition, the report reviews key epidemiological developments of 2008 and provides an overview of our animal health surveillance activities, as well as our emergency planning, preparedness, and monitoring efforts. This report also include an informative summary of the U.S. livestock, poultry, and aquaculture industries.

scholarly journals Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cascio ◽  
Damon Clark ◽  
Nora Gordon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Income ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
College Graduation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Rich Countries

American teenagers perform considerably worse on international assessments of achievement than do teenagers in other high-income countries. This observation has been a source of great concern since the first international tests were administered in the 1960s. But does this skill gap persist into adulthood? We examine this question using the first international assessment of adult literacy, conducted in the 1990s. We find that, consistent with other assessments of the school-age population, U.S. teenagers perform relatively poorly, ranking behind teenagers in the twelve other rich countries surveyed. However, by their late twenties, Americans compare much more favorably to their counterparts abroad: U.S. adults aged 26–30 assessed at the same time using the same test ranked seventh in the same group of countries, and the gap with countries still ahead was much diminished. The historical advantage that the United States has enjoyed in college graduation appears to be an important reason why, between the teen years and the late twenties, American literacy rates appear to catch up with those in other high-income countries. The educational systems of countries with high university graduation rates appear to share two features: comprehensive secondary schools—in which all students have the option of taking courses to prepare for university—and a highly accessible university sector. For most of the twentieth century, the United States led the developed world in participation and completion of higher education. In recent years, however, other high-income countries—many of which established comprehensive secondary schooling in decades prior—have substantially expanded access to university education. These changes should have striking consequences for the distribution of skill across countries in the years to come

scholarly journals Reforming Women’s Health Care: A Call to Action for Lifestyle Medicine Practitioners to Save Lives of Mothers and Infants

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 495-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janani Krishnaswami ◽  
Maria del C. Colon-Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lifestyle Medicine ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Health Care Barriers ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Rich Countries

Maternal and infant mortality are fundamental indicators of a society’s health and wellness. These measures depict a health crisis in the United States. Compared with other rich countries, women in the United States more frequently die from pregnancy or childbirth, and infants are less likely to survive to their first birthday. Most of these deaths are preventable; disproportionately affect diverse, low-income groups; and are perpetuated by social and health care inequities and subpar preventive care. Lifestyle medicine (LM) is uniquely positioned to ameliorate this growing crisis. The article presents key prescriptions for LM practitioners to build health and health equity for women. These prescriptions, summarized by the acronym PURER, include action in the areas of (1) practice, (2) understanding/empathy, (3) reform, (4) empowerment, and (5) relationship health. The PURER approach focuses on partnering with diverse female patients to promote resilience, promoting social connection and engagement, facilitating optimal family planning and advocating for culturally responsive, equitable health care systems. Through PURER, LM practitioners can help women and partners resiliently overcome the harmful challenges of discrimination and stress characterizing present-day American life. Over time, the equitable and collective practice of LM can help ameliorate the health care barriers undermining the health of women, families, and society.

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