Other health metrics are equally disappointing, with data indicating poorer health outcomes for Americans throughout their lives. And, for at least three decades, matters have been getting worse.

The United States spends more on health care than any other country (both per capita and as a percentage of income), but gets poorer outcomes.

The result is cutting corners, deficiencies in care, and poorer outcomes for patients.

Outcomes are poorer in patients who do not have the source of infection removed.

For example, the cultural behavioral approach explains health inequalities in terms of differences in individual behaviors, asserting that poorer people have worse health outcomes, owing to a higher propensity to smoke, drink alcohol, and eat less healthy foods.

Ultimately, more equal societies have better health outcomes.

The poorer you are, the more exposed you are likely to be to health damaging environments.

Differences in health outcomes are exacerbated further by women s tendency to use health care services more than men.

Calculation The QALY is a measure of the value of health outcomes.

A decade of significant progress in health outcomes has proved the skeptics wrong.

When governments cut back on primary health care for their poorer citizens, the entire society ultimately pays a high price.

The source of poor and uneven health outcomes lies in the disparities in household incomes and physical access to health services.

Privatization also left poorer states and poorer communities especially vulnerable.

Special attention will be given to those interventions that address both health and nutrition outcomes.

Reducing inequalities in health outcomes requires more intensive health care for patients in lower socioeconomic brackets, tailored to their specific needs and challenges.

The result is a reconciliation of medication and patient education resulting in increased patient health outcomes and decreased costs to the health care system.

Traditional marriage vows entail a commitment that binds the partners through changing circumstances for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health.

Will Americans Become Poorer?

But, while these policies have reduced inequalities in some social and economic outcomes, including income, housing quality, and health care access, they have been insufficient to eliminate health inequalities.

The reason that not for profit providers can achieve higher quality care with better health outcomes at lower cost is evident.

The public discourse is poorer for this.

As a result ... the poor got even poorer.

At the same time, ensuring that these efforts translate into better health outcomes requires a revolution in the way families prepare their children s food.

Recognizing that health and nutrition outcomes are not the results of action in the health and nutrition sectors alone, UNICEF will build on its intersectoral experience to promote innovative approaches to address immediate and underlying determinants of maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition.

The Strategy focuses on improving outcomes for children in four key areas good health, safety and security, success at learning, and social engagement and responsibility.

The World Health Organization has hosted meetings of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, whose outcomes are contained in the report of the Secretary General.

The existing UNICEF analytical framework (see annex) has proven useful in the analysis of health and nutrition outcomes and their determinants among mothers and children.

The poorer EU countries will suffer from this development.

The tariff was bad economics it made America poorer.

When Asia grows, the West does not become poorer.

But the poorer countries pay much of the costs losing up to 8 of their GDP per year due to environmental degradation, as well as suffering devastating effects on health and human welfare.

While global health outcomes a key focus of the MDGs have improved dramatically in recent years, progress on education worldwide has not been nearly as satisfactory.

Workshop outcomes

Workshop outcomes

A number of my studies have shown that when you give people 10 or more options when they're making a choice, they make poorer decisions, whether it be health care, investment, other critical areas.

So the EU must harmonize its policies with poorer countries.

Costs to US consumers are rising and making them feel poorer, not because they have become poorer, but because the previous pattern of global imbalances exaggerated their wealth.

Survival paradox Although the negative health consequences of obesity in the general population are well supported by the available evidence, health outcomes in certain subgroups seem to be improved at an increased BMI, a phenomenon known as the obesity survival paradox.

If we lost even one, our world was made immeasurably poorer.

Currency unions require a mechanism for permanent transfers to poorer regions.

The health sector faces fewer obstacles, because it is characterized by immediate threats to human life, easily measurable outcomes, a high degree of sustainability, and a vibrant private sector.

Wealthy nations cannot hope to remain healthy if poorer nations do not.

Few places on earth are poorer and more destitute than southern Sudan.

The continent s fusion of culture makes its people richer rather than poorer.

Several outcomes are possible.