It's pretty obvious this is about immigration and origin, not income or healthcare.<p>Mesoamericans, which became Central Americans, and have since immigrated in large numbers to the US, tend to be shorter than Europeans.<p>Japan has some of the healthiest people on Earth, as measured by things like nutrition, healthcare, and lifespan. But they are still shorter on average than the much poorer Estonians.<p>It feels like the author is inappropriately shoehorning this data into a statement about healthcare.
The reason why the Dutch are tall is they have less of a preference for shorter women:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try-to-answer-why-dutch-people-are-so-tall" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try...</a><p>I used to work for an ISP in Amsterdam. I sent a network engineer to the US. He had never even had a passport before. When he returned, he told me: “I used to have a stereotype of Americans as short, fat people. Now I know it is a fact” (he was 1m95/6’6”)
Given how height conveys many advantages, including higher pay* thanks to people's biases of taller = leader, I wonder how long it will be before people start genetically modifying their unborn children to be taller.<p>* <a href="https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2016/03/theres-a-new-type-of-pay-gap-the-height-and-weight-pay-gap" rel="nofollow">https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2016/03/theres-a-new-ty...</a>
My mom and I are six feet tall; from Indiana. Took her to Amsterdam last year for a few weeks; she said it was the first time she didn't feel like a freak.
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Is immigration considered as a factor in such studies? Because many of the tallest nations in Europe are some of the least ethnically diverse.<p>Also, 4 out of 10 tallest nations in the world are from former Yugoslavia, which is one of the poorest regions of Europe[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/the-tallest-and-shortest-countries-in-the-world/" rel="nofollow">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/the-tal...</a>