claim: cuba has "a lower child mortality rate than ours. their life expectancy is now greater than ours."
author: tom harkin
evidence_1: a media that would report global development could have had the headline “the  number of children dying globally fell by 455 since yesterday” and they wouldn't  have this headline once, but every single day over these more than 2 decades.  big countries like brazil and china reduced their child mortality rates 10-fold over  ...
evidence_2: it is a critical measure because the death of a young child has a greater impact  on a population's life expectancy than does a death from disease or injury in the  ... yet even if we eliminate this racial disparity and compare only the infant  mortality rate of caucasian americans, our ranking versus the competitor  countries is ...
evidence_3: dec 13, 2015 ... that's eight for every 1,000 citizens - more than double the rate in the us and in  the uk (the us has 2.5 doctors per 1,000, the uk 2.7 per 1,000 according to ...  and alcohol mean cuba's citizens are now dying of the same diseases claiming  lives in higher income countries: heart disease, stroke and cancer.
evidence_4: jun 18, 2012 ... the state-run system has been praised, but many specialists now fear they are  falling behind international standards. ... despite its scarce resources, cuba has  one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates - just slightly lower than that of the  us. life expectancy is 77.5 years, one of the world's highest.
evidence_5: apr 29, 2010 ... average life expectancy is 77.5 years, compared to 78.1 years in the united  states, and infant and child mortality rates match or beat our own. there's one  doctor for every 170 people, more than twice the per-capita u.s. average. not  everything ... wired.com: how does cuba keep health care costs so low?