The United States (US) has the most expensive health care system in the world. In spite of that, health care is of somewhat inconsistent in quality, and leads to poorer health outcomes relative to other, similar nations. For example, the United States has much higher infant mortality rates regardless of geographical focus. The result is that the US spends more per capita on health services than any other country in the world, but lags behind health indicators as life expectancy
I believed Douglas and Clay counties in Georgia State of the US posed greater challenge in fighting the problem of African Americans’ infant mortality among age group 16 – 20 (Georgia Department of Public Health, n.d.). In terms of comparing infant mortality rate between African Americans and white persons, there seemed to display incomparable dissimilarity. According to an article presented by Hummer (1993), concerns over differentials of infant mortality between African-Americans and Anglos persist. The rate of African-American to Anglo infant mortality ratios were 1.6 in 1950,1.9 in 1960,2.0
