Health care access - national and international perspectives
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Canada ranks well in global health care access study, but room for improvement
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-ranks-well-in-global-health-care-access-study-but-room-for-improvement-1.3420971
Canada has scored well in a global study to assess how effectively countries use their healthcare systems to avoid preventable deaths, but the country still has plenty of room for improvement.
The first ever Healthcare Access and Quality Index, released Friday, measures citizens’ access to quality health care by focusing on the death rates of 32 diseases that are usually easily treatable.
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From the Commonwealth Fund: 4 Health Care Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from Top-Performing Countries: The recent Commonwealth Fund report, Mirror, Mirror 2017: International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care, compared health care system performance in the United States with that of 10 other high-income countries. The U.S. ranked last in overall health system performance, yet as a nation we spend the most per person on health care. What can we learn from the top-performing countries? Report coauthors Eric C. Schneider, M.D., and David Squires discuss areas where the U.S. can improve in a New England Journal of Medicine “Perspective.” Read more: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/lists/2017/4-health-care-international-lessons
Another topic-related article from The Commonwealth Fund: From Last to First — Could the U.S. Health Care System Become the Best in the World?
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-brief/2017/jul/last-to-first-could-us-health-system-become-best-in-world