China exceeds US in healthy life span for first time, says WHO

[TaiShang]

China exceeds US in healthy life span for first time, says WHO

Source: Xinhua Published: 2018/5/31 14:38:56

Chinese people can look forward to a longer healthy life than Americans for the first time since records began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) data.

Chinese newborns in 2016 can expect 68.7 years of healthy life, compared with 68.5 years for American babies, the figures show.

American babies can still expect to live longer overall, dying at 78.5 years compared to China's 76.4. but during the last decade Americans are likely to suffer from ill health.

"The lost years of good health that are a factor in calculating healthy life expectancy at birth are lower for China, Japan, Korea and some other high income Asian countries than for high income 'Western' countries," said WHO spokeswoman Alison Clements-Hunt.

The United States was one of five nations, along with Somalia, Afghanistan, Georgia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where healthy life spans beginning at birth fell in 2016, according to the WHO data, which was published in mid-May.

"Chinese life expectancy has increased substantially and is now higher than for some high-income countries," said Clements-Hunt.

The US life span is decreasing, having peaked at 79 years in 2014, the first such reversal for many years, she said.

The world's longest living people are the Japanese. Babies born in Japan in 2016 were forecast to live for 84.2 years.

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Not bad for a developing country, eh? But, the US is not really an impressive threshold, although very telling. The threshold is definitely China's northeastern island neighbour and historical extension.

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[yusheng]

last year, Traditional Chinese Medicine Act went into effect, now promotion of CTM appears as another main alternative to take care of national health.
in the near future we will see a more effective and economic national health system.

 

[AndrewJin]

Greatest achievement of Muricans in 21st century
Decreasing life expectancy

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Preventative measures are most important, good balanced nutrition and resistance exercise are the key.

America has been a developed country for around a century now, yet their population sits on the couch eating pizza and donuts all day long, and they can't remember the last time they did a strict pull up or a strict push up (maybe half a casual push up).

As a result they are being surpassed by developing countries in terms of health.

 

[JSCh]

China ranked best developing country in Asia for children to grow up
Source: Xinhua| 2018-05-31 20:55:40|Editor: Li Xia


BEIJING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- China has ranked as the best developing country in Asia for children to grow up in for the second year in a row as it continues to make progress in child well-being, according to a new report by Save the Children.

Released ahead of International Children's Day on June 1, the global charity's report examines 175 countries on a range of indicators related to childhood like child marriage, teenage pregnancy and child mortality.

In the charity's End of Childhood Index, which ranks countries according to where childhood is most and least threatened, China improved one spot to 40th, marginally behind the United States (36th) and Russia (37th).

"Children in China experience the safest childhoods of all developing nations in Asia. China has made tremendous progress both in the economy and in improving the well-being of children across the country in recent years," said Wang Chao, Save the Children country director in China.

China made the greatest gains in education enrollment for disabled children and nutrition. Wang said that while this was promising, there was still room for improvement.

"Children with disabilities in China by and large are still being left behind. Far greater investment needs to be made in inclusive education to enable all children -- regardless of their ability -- to attend and learn at mainstream schools," Wang said.

In May 2017, the revised regulation on improving education for the disabled came into force. It is the first time that inclusive education was written in Chinese regulations.

While the revised regulations will benefit a large number of children, there is still a long way to go until they are fully implemented, and until children stop suffering from negative stigmas associated with disabilities, Wang said.

According to the charity, the situation for children has improved in 95 of 175 countries surveyed, but worsened in about 40 nations since last year.

The report also reveals that globally more than 1.2 billion children are at risk of poverty, conflict and gender discrimination, and these children are excluded from learning, and denied basics like healthcare and even food.

 

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Greatest achievement of Muricans in 21st century
Decreasing life expectancy

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Fentanyl Wars.

 

[TaiShang]

Greatest achievement of Muricans in 21st century
Decreasing life expectancy

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Becoming a real SP12.

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US economic growth revised down to 2.2 pct in first quarter

CGTN
2018-05-31

US economic growth was revised to an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, slightly lower than 2.3 percent previously estimated, the US Commerce Department reported on Wednesday.

The general picture of economic growth remained the same in the first quarter as the downward revisions to private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, and exports were partly offset by an upward revision to nonresidential fixed investment, the department said in a report.

Personal consumption expenditures, which account for more than two-thirds of the overall economy, grew at an annual rate of one percent in the first quarter, slightly lower than 1.1 percent earlier estimated, according to the department.

Non-residential fixed investment, a measure of corporate spending on structures and equipment, grew at 9.2 percent in the first three months of the year, higher than 6.1 percent previously estimated.