Сразу оговорюсь - русский вариант не читал. Но складывается ощущение, что при переводе была упущена важная деталь - ЖАНР. А жанр этой книги - fiction, я бы добавил - pulp fiction (бульварное чтиво). Этого не скрывает и сам автор:
Professor Z, the author of this tale, describes himself as "a weathered surgeon in active practice." Although he wishes to remain anonymous, he attempts to reassure the reader that the story of Zohar and his quest for the truth is purely fictional.
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Я вот тут тоже пролистал одну книженцию ( с табличками и фактами). Согласно сочинителю, тоже анонимному, все западные ученые занимаются фальсификацией, плагиатом, подделками, приписками и.т.п. с целью сказочно разбогатеть и прославится. Впечатляет, потому как враньё, и "враньё от первого до последнего слова".
P.S. А недостатки в американской системе имеются. Но и система имеется...
Вот интересная работа российских ученых по теме:
The evolving pattern of avoidable mortality in Russia.
Andreev EM, Nolte E, Shkolnikov VM, Varavikova E, McKee M.
Laboratory of Analysis and Prognosis of Population Mortality, Centre of Demography and Human Ecology, Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, 47 Nakhimovsky Prospect, 117418 Moscow, Russian Federation.
BACKGROUND: Life expectancy at birth in Russia is over 12 years less than in western Europe. This study explores the possible role of medical care in explaining this gap by examining the evolving pattern of mortality amenable to timely and effective medical care in Russia compared with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and the UK. METHODS: Analysis of standardized death rates from causes amenable to health care (treatable) or inter-sectoral health policies (preventable) in all regions and decomposition of differences in life expectancy between Russia and the UK by age, sex, and cause of death for the period 1965-1999/2000. RESULTS: Death rates from treatable causes remained stable between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s in Russia and the Baltic republics while steadily falling in the UK to less than half the rate in Russia. In the 1990s, rates increased in the former Soviet republics, reaching a peak in 1994 but reversing again in Russia in 1998. Deaths from causes amenable to inter-sectoral health interventions were higher in the UK in 1965 than in the Soviet Union but subsequently fell steadily while they increased in the East. Between 1965 and 1999, the male life expectancy gap between Russia and the UK rose from 3.6 to 15.1 years (women: 1.6 and 7.4 years). Treatable causes became an increasingly important contributor to this gap, accounting for almost 3 years by the end of the 1990s in men and 2 years in women. In Russia, elimination of treatable causes of death would have increased life expectancy by 2.9 years in men in 1995/99 compared with 1.2 years in the UK (women: 3.3 and 1.8 years), suggesting that, were the outcomes of health care achieved in the UK to be obtained in Russia, life expectancy for men might improve by about 1.7 years and for women by about 1.5 years. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the Soviet health care system has failed to match the achievements of the West over the past three decades, highlighting the need to establish a system that provides effective and equitable care for the Russian population.
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