Why the UK has a high child death rate

[LeftishBrit]

...Around 6,000 children and young people die a year in the UK. Over two-thirds of these are aged under five, and the majority are under the age of one....

We have higher rates than countries including Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Portugal and are more in-line with Poland and Serbia than with the high performing countries such as Iceland, Sweden and Germany....

Our overarching conclusion was that risk of child death disproportionally affects poorer families.

When you compare Britain to the rest of Europe, we are one of the most unequal societies, with a growing gap between rich and poor. ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27260371

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Fascism, longer than most .

[LeftishBrit]

2. In this case, Thatcherism rather than fascism

To add - 50 years ago, the UK was one of the best countries for infant mortality. I think it was the 3rd lowest in the world. After Thatcherism took over here, things were never the same. Some of the change in relative position is because some countries in Europe took a long time to recover from the devastation of WW2, and caught up after doing so; but this cannot explain our current low position.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Her pal Ronnie Ray-guns, did the same for US .