Re: infant mortality and TB statistics

 one of your rec ipients- me- asked how yu explain the seeminglyi not so 
obvious TB list. my hypothesis was climate.
gunderOn Thu, 3 May 2001, Tausch,
Arno wrote:

> Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:03:01 +0200 
> From: "Tausch, Arno" <Arno.Tausch@bmsg.gv.at>
> To: "'wsn@csf.colorado.edu'" <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Subject: infant mortality and TB statistics
> 
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> 
> I received several mails regarding my posting of the mentioned statistics.
> So, here is a brief clarification:
> 
> Please consider that
> 
> 1)    the 10 best countries in the world according to the TB statistics
> were:
> 
> 
>       Barbados        
>       Malta   
>       Pakistan        
>       Iceland 
>       Grenada 
>       Norway  
>       Jamaica 
>       New Zealand     
>       Sweden  
>       Cyprus  
>       Canada  
>       
> 2)    the best performers according to the infant mortality rate statistic
> are:
> 
> 
>       Norway  
>       Sweden  
>       Japan   
>       Finland 
>       Singapore       
>       Australia       
>       Iceland 
>       Netherlands     
>       France  
>       Switzerland     
>       Germany 
>       
> 3)    TB statistics usually refer to cases per 100 000 inhabitants. Also
> consider the decimal point, i.e. in the worst performing country, Djibouti,
> there are almost 600 cases per 100 000 inhabitants
> 4)    Infant mortality rates refer usually to infant deaths aged 0 - 1 per
> life births and year
> 
> A look at the really fantastic UNDP statistics website gives you further
> access to data and definitions:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.undp.org/hdro/highlights/statistics.html
> <http://www.undp.org/hdro/highlights/statistics.html> 
> 
> 
> Kindest regards
> 
> Arno Tausch
> 



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