The Scientist : "African levels" of ill-health push the US health system to 37th rank [22/6/2000]

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by Robert Walgate

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"African levels" of ill-health push the US health system to 37th rank

A detailed, surprising statistical report by the WHO is overturning assumptions about whose health system is best.

Email: Robert Walgate - walgate@scienceanalysed.com
News from The Scientist 2000, 1(1):20000622-02

Published

22 June 2000

The World Health Organisation (WHO)'s World Health Report for the year 2000 faces health ministries head on, and refuses to take their data for granted. Instead, it makes its own statistical analysis of how well 191 different national health systems are functioning. Tables cover a wide range of indicators, but summing up performance into a single measure, the report ranks the massively costly US system way down the list.

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