According to the study [“U.S. Child Health: What’s Amiss, And What Should Be Done About It?”], twenty-four countries ranked better than the United States in infant mortality rates in 2000. Out of 191 countries, the United States ranked 33rd in its death rate for children under age 5. The United States, out of 187 countries, ranked 68th in immunizing children against diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus; 89th for polio; and 84th for measles. U.S. teens ranked 18th out of 28 industrialized countries in a self-reported survey of not feeling healthy." Full http://www.jhsph.edu/Press_Room/Press_Releases/PR_2004/Starfield_childhealth.html