The price of life: health outcomes① Today comes the OECD's annual health check-up, covering the problems of 36 mostly rich countries with an average life expectancy over 80 years. ② Mental-health problems are growing; they will affect one in two people at some point in their lives. ③ Circulatory disease now accounts for one in three deaths and cancer one in four across the developed world. ④ But in a bright spot, mortality rates have dropped rapidly in the European Union, by 40% for heart disease and 50% for strokes since 2000. ⑤ But this takes money. ⑥ Health-care spending, 10% of GDP on average, continues rising. ⑦ And inequality, particularly in education, corresponds with a gulf in outcomes: a 30-year-old European man with only secondary-school education is eight percentage points more likely to be obese than his university-educated peer, and can expect to live seven years less. ⑧ While correlation is not causation, it seems people learn and live rather than live and learn.▍生词好句outcome /'aʊtkʌm, 'aʊt'kʌm/: n. 结果；成果cover /'kʌvə/: vt. 涉及life expectancy: 预期寿命at some point: 在某一时刻；在某种情况下circulatory /'sɜːkjʊlət(ə)rɪ, sɜːkjʊ'leɪt(ə)rɪ/: adj. 循环的across /ə'krɒs, ə'krɔs/: prep. 横过；在......上bright spot: 亮点；高兴的事mortality rate: 死亡率inequality /ɪnɪ'kwɒlɪtɪ, ɪnɪ'kwɑləti/: n. 不平等correspond with: 符合；一致gulf /gʌlf/: n. 深渊；分歧obese /ə(ʊ)'biːs, o'bis/: adj. 肥胖的 correlation /ˌkɒrə'leɪʃ(ə)n, ˌkɔrə'leʃən/: n. 相关；相互关系causation /kɔː'zeɪʃ(ə)n, kɔ'zeʃən/: n. 原因；因果关系▍词汇拓展1. circulatory disease: 循环系统疾病high blood pressure: 高血压heart disease / heart attack: 心脏病stroke: 中风2. average life expectancy: 平均寿命3. live and learn: 活到老学到老It seems people learn and live rather than live and learn.
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