Mortality as an Indicator of Economic Success and Failure
探讨死亡率如何反映医疗、教育、城市秩序等社会条件，并揭示性别和种族不平等，对政策制定者和社会研究者有参考价值。
Quality of life depends on various physical and social conditions, such as the epidemiological environment in which a person lives. The availability of health care and the nature of medical insurance—public as well as private—are among the important influences on life and death. So are other social services, including basic educa tion and the orderliness of urban living, and the access to modern medical knowledge in rural communities. The statistics on mortality draw our attention to all these policy issues. Mortality information can throw light also on the nature of social inequalities, including gender bias and racial disparities