Ohio.com - Health-care matchup finds Ohio falls short

Ohio.com - Health-care matchup finds Ohio falls short

From the article, which is a nice overview of US (Ohio) vs. Canadian (Ontario)

To explore how Ohio compares to the nation and the world, the Beacon Journal looked 60 miles across Lake Erie to the Canadian province of Ontario.
How does Ohio measure up to its neighbor?
Not very well:
• A 65-year-old Ontario resident can look forward to living about 20 more years — three years more than an Ohioan the same age can expect. At birth, the difference in life expectancy is greater — 76.4 years for Ohioans, compared to 80.7 years in Ontario.
• In Ohio, nearly eight of 1,000 newborns die each year — significantly higher than the U.S. rate of 6.8 deaths. In Ontario, the infant mortality rate is 5.5
• Ontario also has lower death rates for each of the top six causes: heart disease, cancer, stroke, emphysema and other chronic lower respiratory diseases, diabetes and accidents.
Overall, the gap in these key health-care yardsticks was wider between Ohio and Ontario than between the two nations as a whole in all but two categories: strokes and accidents.
That difference was striking because the state and the province are so similar demographically.
While the 300 million people in the United States are nine times more than Canada's head count, Ohio and Ontario are close in population, overall economic size and demographic measures such as median age, average household and family size, and education.
Ohio and Ontario also have similar economies, with almost the same percentage of both work forces employed in manufacturing and retail and wholesale trade — the two largest industry categories. Wages and salaries also are comparable.

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