Fast Stats
24.9
Is the average age for a woman to have her first child, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number jumped from 21.4 in 1970 to 24.9 in 2000. Researchers attribute the climb to the increasing number of women entering college and the workforce.
7
Percent of doctors say a family member has died due to a preventable medical error, according to a recent survey by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. That number jumps to 10 percent for members of the general public who participated in the survey. Results of the study appear in the Dec. 12, 2002 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
2
Out of 3 Americans are willing to be vaccinated against smallpox – a disease many fear could be used as a possible bioterrorism agent. So says a December report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
HPN
|
