List of worlds best health care systems by country

[Catherine Poole]

The US should be ashamed! http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-efficient-health-care-countries

[Alicia]

Cathy,

What was the criteria for that ranking? It doesn’t look right to me…. 😮

[Thandster]

I think this ranking says more about our diet and lifestyle than it does about our healthcare system.

[Catherine Poole]

Based on efficiency: infant mortality and mortality age. What doesn’t look right?

[farang100]

The cost of healthcare in the US is embarrassingly high. 😯

[katie1]

Here’s an explanation of what Bloomberg evaluated

http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2013/08/28/bloomberg-ranks-the-worlds-most-efficient-health-care-systems

For an in-depth look at comparisons of healthcare systems you may wish to read this OECD paper

http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Health-at-a-Glance-2013.pdf

Kate

[Catherine Poole]

Thanks Katie, I thought it was also the birth mortality rate which is very poor in the US. But here is what I picked out, they based it on:

Life expectancy, which accounted for 60% of the ranking;

Relative per capita cost of health care (percentage of GDP per capita), which accounted for 30%; and

Absolute per capita cost of health care (expenditures covering preventive services, family planning, nutrition, and emergency aid), which accounted for 10%.

[bettin]

Even just looking in the ‘Health-care cost per capita’ this is pretty shocking, especially considering the high number of un-insured patients in the US….only Switzerland spends more!

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