According to the Daily Telegraph of November 4, people in the US are twice as likely to contract diabetes and a third more likely to develop cancer than those among similar aged people in England。
But despite this, Americans, aged 65, can expect to live on average around three months longer than their equivalent retirees across the Atlantic。
The discrepancies suggests that while English people have healthier lifestyles than Americans, the latter's health care system is better able to patch them up。
The study, co-authored by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, involved analyzing information from two comparable surveys of people aged 50 and over in the United States and England。
But both sets of pensioners had a similar life expectancy (82 for men, 85 for women) with Americans actually living on average a few months longer。
Mr Smith said that research suggested that "higher-quality medical care in the United States than in England" meant people were less likely to die from chronic illnesses。
据英国《每日电讯报》11月4日报道，美国患有糖尿病的人是英国的两倍，患有癌症的人要比英国多三分之一。
尽管如此，年龄在65岁的美国人平均要比生活在跨太平洋的英国的退休人士寿命要长3个月。
这些差异表明，尽管英国人的生活方式要比美国人更健康，但是美国的医疗保健体系要比英国更完善，老年人的寿命要略长一些。
该研究报告是由伦敦财政研究学会人员共同撰写，报告分析了来自美国和英国分别针对年龄在50岁以及以上的老年人进行的两份调查。
两个国家的退休人群的寿命相似(男性平均82岁，女性平均85岁)，但是美国人实际上平均寿命要比英国人多几个月。
史密斯先生说，研究表明“美国高水平的医疗保健体系要比英国更胜一筹，”这也意味着美国人死于慢性疾病的人少之又少。 |