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1、.Studies Show US Spending Doesnt Get Best HealthThe United States may spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries but it is not getting results to match, according to three studies released on Tuesday. But in the studies of five wealthy countries, published in the journal Health Affai
2、rs, researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system. Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins Universitys school of public health and colleagues came up with a list of 21 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries - Australia, Canada, Britain, New Z
3、ealand and the United States. None of the five countries . is consistently the best or the worst on all 21 indicators, Anderson told a telephone briefing for reporters. If you are looking for the place to get the best care, there isnt a single place . Every country has at least one indicator where i
4、t scores the best of the five countries (and) each country has at least one indicator where it scores the worst of the five countries. But, he said, the United States is not getting value for money.The United States should be particularly concerned about these results, given that we spend twice as m
5、uch on health care as any other country. So spending more doesnt necessarily result in better outcomes.Andersons group of international health experts sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund spent five years working on the study, getting the latest-possible data from the five countries on areas such as b
6、reast cancer and leukemia survival, suicide rates, death rates from asthma, vaccination rates and cancer screening.研究说明,美国的消费没有得到最好的医疗美国可能会花两倍保健其他富裕国家却并没有得到相应的结果,根据星期二公布的三的研究。但在五个富裕国家的研究,发表在健康事务期刊,研究人员发现,没有哪个国家有明显的最好的卫生保健系统。热拉尔Anderson在约翰霍普金斯大学的公共卫生学院和同事们列出了21个健康领域可以均匀的比拟在五个国家澳大利亚,加拿大,英国,新西兰和美国。“这五个
7、国家不始终保持是最好的或最坏的所有21个指标,安德森对记者的 会议上告诉。“如果你找得到最好的照顾的地方,那里是“T一个地方每个国家都有至少一个指示器,成绩最好的五个国家和每个国家都至少有一个指标,它的成绩最差的五个国家。但是,他说,美国是没有得到金钱的价值。“美国应该特别关注这些结果,因为我们花了两倍保健为任何其他国家。所以花更多的是“更好的结果未必的结果。安德森的国际健康专家由联邦基金资助集团花了五年的研究工作,获得的最新数据可能来自五个国家地区,如乳腺癌和白血病的生存,自杀率,哮喘死亡率,疫苗接种率和癌症筛查。第二篇:Most Adults in US Have Low Risk of
8、Heart DiseaseMore than 80 percent of US adults have a less than 10percent risk of developing heart disease in the next 10 years, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Just 3 percent have a risk that exceeds 20 percent.“I hope that these numbers will give physici
9、ans, researchers, health policy analysts, and others a better idea of how coronary heart disease is distributed in the US population, lead author Dr. Earl S. Ford, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 in Atlanta, said in a statement.The findings are based on analysis of data from 13,
10、769 subjects, between 20 and 79 years of age, who participated in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1988 to 1994.Overall, 82 percent of adults had a risk of less than 10 percent, 15 percent had a risk that fell between 10 to 20 percent, and 3 percent had a risk above 20
11、 percent.The proportion of subjects in the highest risk group increased with advancing age, and men were more likely than women to be in this group.2 By contrast3, race or ethnicity had little effect on risk distributions.Although the report suggests that most adults have a low 10year risk of heart
12、disease, a large proportion have a high or immediate risk4, Dr. Daniel S. Berman, from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and Dr. Nathan D. Wong, from the University of California at Irvine, note in a related editorial.Aggressive treatment measures and public health strategies are needed to
13、 shift the overall population risk downward, they add。第二篇:大多数成年人在我们的心脏病风险低超过百分之80的美国成年人有一个在未来10年中发生心脏病的风险到达小于10,根据美国心脏病学院杂志的一篇研究报告。百分之3有超过百分之20的风险。“我希望这些数字会给医生,研究人员,卫生政策分析,和其他人更好地了解冠心病是分布在美国的人口,主要作者厄尔美国福特,从在亚特兰大的疾病控制中心和prevention1,在一份声明中说。这些发现是基于分析的数据来自13769个科目,20至79岁,参加了第三次全国健康和营养检查调查从1988到1994。总体而
14、言,百分之82的成年人有一个小于百分之10的风险,百分之15有风险,下跌10至百分之20之间,百分之3有百分之20以上的风险。在高风险组的受试者的比例随着年龄的增加,男性比女性更有可能是这一组中。2contrast3,种族或种族的影响不大的风险分布。虽然报告说明,大多数成年人都有较低的心脏病风险10年,大比例高或直接risk4,博士丹尼尔S.伯曼,从雪松西奈医疗中心在洛杉矶,博士和弥敦博士王,来自加州大学欧文分校,在相关的编者按。积极的治疗措施和公共卫生战略需要转移的整体人口的风险下降,加。SmokingSince 1939, numerous studies have been conduc
15、ted to determine whether smoking is a health hazard. The trend of the evidence has been consistent and indicates that there is a serious health risk. Research teams have conducted studies that show beyond all reasonable doubt that tobacco smoking is associated with a shortened life expectancy.Cigare
16、tte smoking is believed by most research workers in this field to be an important factor in the development of cancer of the lungs and cancer of the throat and is believed to be related to cancer of some other organs of the body. Male cigarette smokers have a higher death rate from heart disease than non-smoking males. Female smokers are thought to be less affecte