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USA vs Cuba (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

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[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The malnutrition stat is completely made up

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're right, it's actually higher in USA now

Results: Between 1999 and 2020, 93,244 older adults died from malnutrition. Malnutrition AAMR increased from 10.7 per 100,000 in 1999 to 25.0 per 100,000 in 2020.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37936140/

Meanwhile, Cuba is at 0.3 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malnutrition-death-rates

[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is a Patrick Symmes's article I read a while ago

https://www.patricksymmes.com/articles/publications/harpers/2010/thirty-days-as-a-cuban/

The data you listed comes from IHME, Global Burden of Disease but there's nothing findable online as to how it's actually gathered

I suspect they got it from the Cuban government

It's not easy having a good nutrition in Cuba

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah Cuba is a small island under brutal blockade by the burger empire

[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 7 months ago

Yes