1.   While inner London has the lowest mortality rate of any region in the country, not all its hospitals are top performers.

2.   Heart bypass patients could find facilities that perform the most surgeries and have the lowest mortality rates.

3.   In contrast, states such as New Hampshire, Vermont, Wisconsin and Utah that had the least income disparities had the lowest mortality rates.

4.   Japan, which has the lowest mortality rate for dialysis patients in the industrialized world, already does that.

5.   Japan has among the best health statistics, with the lowest infant mortality rate, in the world, and better health care coverage than the United States.

6.   Once the developing country with the highest literacy rate and lowest infant mortality rate, people now sell their books for food.

7.   With free education and health care, it has the highest literacy rate and the lowest infant mortality rate in Latin America.

8.   Uganda has the lowest mortality rate.