readiness as well as the state of a country s health and education systems. so who came out on top let s take a look at the results. coming in at number one is the world s biggest economy the united states it s good especially high on the business dynamism measure number two might surprise you it singapore a country of just five million people it s defining competitive feature was openness third prize for competitiveness goes to germany which did especially well in the area of innovation the other top performers were mainly in europe with japan and hong kong standing out in asia. but the report suggests that even top performers should not rest on their laurels while the united states gained a lot of points for its dynamic entrepreneurial culture the study points out that it did relatively badly on other measures like health. health adjusted life expectancy that is the number of years a person can expect to stay healthy is only sixty seven years in the us that s
health issue. dr. abdul, the study of this, i don t think, has been given enough attention, of having to live under this kind of communal stress and trauma. how does this impact the entire lifestyle and environment of the black community? right. so i just underscore what ebonie is saying, and when we talk about witnessing police killings. one of the things the study points out is it s not just direct witnessing, it s this concept, this way in which black people live. we have the highest sense of what s called linked fate of any group in the country. we understand that our fortune is tied to the fortune of every other black person. so when you see unarmed black people being killed by police, and there being absolutely no accountability for those deaths,
agree. certainly putting on a great show. i have spain. you have argentina. today is not great, but great action on the way. thank you, alex. a troubling story. iq scores have been declining steadily for decades. a new study says environmental factors are to blame. the iq scores of norwegian men show scores fell for those born after 1975. similar studies in denmark, britain, france and netherlands and estonia show similar trends. researchers have used genes to explain variations in intelligen intelligence. the study points to environmental factors like changes in the education system and nutrition and reading less and being online more. okay. a giant dust storm .
begins tomorrow, eight months after hurricane maria devastated the u.s. territory of puerto rico, so many communities are still in recovery mode. a harvard study just revealed the island s estimated death toll from the storm is 70 times higher than the government s official count. there are more than 4,600 dea s deaths, they say, compared to the official death toll of 64. the study points out people are not getting key services like electricity, medical attention and critics have blasted response saying the government, federal and local, are not doing enough. and rosie perez, a proud puerto rican american, welcome back. thank you and thank you so much for having me back on your show. this is a very important show. it broke my heart that roseanne barr was the topic of social media and not the 4,600 deaths
patients who receive common operations in the daytime, well, they claim they fare no worse in the short term if the physician worked that hospital graveyard overnight shift the night before than patients whose doctor did not. so dr. siegel, does this make sense to you? well, first of all, it s a first of its kind study, and it looked at almost 40,000 patients in onterio and almost 1,500 physicians and looked at one day. you know, your doctor that day had the graveyard shift from 12:00 to 7:00 and next day had an elective procedure like a hip replacement or knee replacement or spinal surgery. how did he or she do in the complication rate was not greater, even if the surgeon worked overnight and the death rate was not higher and readmission rate was not higher. but, eric, the author of the study points out these are not trainees. we re talking about attending surgeons, like dr. samadi here, people who have experience. people who also have control of their schedule works can say i want