Re: US health care,a winner for Hillary in 04?
Quoting James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the USA is always being compared) don't count a child as born until it has reached a certain age (three weeks in Sweden). Guess when most infant deaths occur? Interesting datum. Could you give a source for this. If true, needs wide publicity, since we web search for infant mortality and Sweden gives a zillion hits, all saying what you would expect. I would also like to see a source for the claim, as this is something I've never heard before. According to SCB, the Swedish official department of statistics, the definition of infant mortality is all deaths which occur before the child is one year old. I couldn't find that definition in English on the department's web page, though. The Swedish definition is in http://www.scb.se/statinfo/1999/Be0101.asp (under the term spädbarnsdödlighet) I did find an English translation of the definition of a live birth, though. http://www.scb.se/publkat/filer/be79sa0201%5F01.pdf Section 3, Definitions and concepts A live birth refers to a newborn who after the birth has breathed or showed any other evidence of life such as active hearthbeat, pulsation in the umbilical cord or definite movement of volontary muscles. The definition is valid regardess of the duration of pregnancy and the maturity of the child. A stillbirth is a newborn who has died before or during delivery and after teh end of the 28th gestational week calculated from the first day of the latest normal menstruation. If there is uncertainty regarding gestational age, the length of the foetus is an important factor in the assessment. If the length of foetus is at least 35 centimeters, it will generally be counted as a child. It would seem as we indeed count the child as born directly from, well, birth... - Sten
Re: US health care,a winner for Hillary in 04?
Quoting James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the USA is always being compared) don't count a child as born until it has reached a certain age (three weeks in Sweden). Guess when most infant deaths occur? Interesting datum. Could you give a source for this. If true, needs wide publicity, since we web search for infant mortality and Sweden gives a zillion hits, all saying what you would expect. I would also like to see a source for the claim, as this is something I've never heard before. According to SCB, the Swedish official department of statistics, the definition of infant mortality is all deaths which occur before the child is one year old. I couldn't find that definition in English on the department's web page, though. The Swedish definition is in http://www.scb.se/statinfo/1999/Be0101.asp (under the term spädbarnsdödlighet) I did find an English translation of the definition of a live birth, though. http://www.scb.se/publkat/filer/be79sa0201%5F01.pdf Section 3, Definitions and concepts A live birth refers to a newborn who after the birth has breathed or showed any other evidence of life such as active hearthbeat, pulsation in the umbilical cord or definite movement of volontary muscles. The definition is valid regardess of the duration of pregnancy and the maturity of the child. A stillbirth is a newborn who has died before or during delivery and after teh end of the 28th gestational week calculated from the first day of the latest normal menstruation. If there is uncertainty regarding gestational age, the length of the foetus is an important factor in the assessment. If the length of foetus is at least 35 centimeters, it will generally be counted as a child. It would seem as we indeed count the child as born directly from, well, birth... - Sten
RE: Detectable cash notes a fantasy
Go and read 'Repent Harlequin! Cried the Tick-Tock Man' by PK Dick for a particularly slackless society with this technology. Might be easier to find if you substitute Harlan Ellison as the author, though. - Sten
Re: out of the box
Citerar Michael Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: weird. I was told this when I was in sweeden, as an explaination for the basic niceness of sweedes - ie, that they recieved in school basic emotional education which enabled them to deal with difficult people and situations. true/not true ? The basic niceness of Swedes? Well, that characteristic is up there with the basic swimming ability of a large traffic light... Seriously, I went to Swedish school/university for 17 years, starting in 1982. If there ever were any emotional education classes, I never noticed. Hm. So *that's* why I am evil! - Sten
Re: out of the box
Citerar Michael Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In Sweeden basic emotional education for all cuts social problems down to a minscule amount. Sweden has a basic emotional education for all? How come they never told me that? - Sten (born and raised in Sweden)
