Where Does U.S. Health Care Rank Among Other Major Nations?

July 24, 2024 | admin

(NEWS WEEK)  , August 20, 20In 2000, the World Health Organization embarked on an exhaustive mission to rank the health care systems of 191 countries, with the African nation Sierra Leone ranking dead last and the United States ranking 37th at the time. Since then, however, the WHO has declined to update its rankings. In its stead, The Commonwealth Fund has conducted its own evaluation of various major countries’ health care systems, ranking them broadly by five criteria: quality care, access, efficiency, equity, and the number of people living healthy lives. Its latest report was released in 2014 and included 11 countries in total.

Let’s take a look at the bottom 5 countries counting down and see where they stack up.

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