GOOD Transparency on World Health | VizWorld.com

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GOOD Transparency on World Health | VizWorld.com

GOOD magazine has a great new infographic (”Transparency”) online visualizing various statistics about Health in various nations. Every country in the world approaches health care differently, but the end goal is the same: Keep citizens as healthy as possible at the lowest cost … This is a look at 12 countries around the world that examines how far the money they spend on health care goes toward affecting the health of their citizens. It’s a great graphic showing life expancy, various mortality numbers (per 100k population), and cost per capita on healthcare.  It’s a great way of understanding why President Obama is looking to Canada and Australia for ideas on US Health Care Reform.  However, much data is still missing, particularly on how much money is spent on cutting-edge, experimental, or research treatments.

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[Robert]

Wow, that's remarkably poor cost to quality ratio. Even compared to Canada our health care is incredibly expensive. How is it that Korea, Japan, Turkey, etc. can provide care for so much less than the United States?