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Nov 22nd 2018
The price of life: health outcomes
- The price of life 生命的价值
- Today comes the OECD’s annual health check-up, covering the problems of 36 mostly rich countries with an average life expectancy over 80 years.
- OECD 经济合作与发展组织(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)；经合组织
- an average life expectancy 平均寿命
- Mental-health problems are growing; they will affect one in two people at some point in their lives.
- mental-health 心理健康
- Circulatory disease now accounts for one in three deaths and cancer one in four across the developed world.
- Circulatory disease 循环系统疾病
- accounts for 占的比例
- one in three 三分之一
- But in a bright spot, mortality rates have dropped rapidly in the European Union, by 40% for heart disease and 50% for strokes since 2000.
- bright spot 亮点
- mortality rate 死亡率
- heart disease 心脏疾病
- stroke n. 中风
But this takes money. Health-care spending, 10% of GDP on average, continues rising.
And inequality, particularly in education, corresponds with a gulf in outcomes: a 30-year-old European man with only secondary-school education is eight percentage points more likely to be obese than his university-educated peer, and can expect to live seven years less.
- gulf 分歧；鸿沟；隔阂
- secondary-school education 中学教育
- obese 肥胖的
- university-educated 受过大学教育的
- While correlation is not causation, it seems people learn and live rather than live and learn.
- correlation 相关性
- causation 原因；诱因；起因
- learn and live 学到老,活到老
- live and learn 活到老,学到老
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