U.S. health care from a global perspective: 2019 : higher spending, worse outcomes?
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Data brief (Commonwealth Fund)
- Author(s):
- Tikkanen, Roosa, author Abrams, Melinda K., author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Commonwealth Fund, January 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care -- economics Developed Countries -- statistics & numerical data Global Health -- statistics & numerical data Health Expenditures -- statistics & numerical data Population Health Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip Breast Neoplasms Diabetes Mellitus -- mortality Early Detection of Cancer -- statistics & numerical data Facilities and Services Utilization -- statistics & numerical data Financing, Personal Health Workforce -- statistics & numerical data Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data Hypertension -- mortality Influenza Vaccines Length of Stay -- statistics & numerical data Life Expectancy Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- statistics & numerical data Office Visits -- statistics & numerical data Physicians Preventive Health Services Suicide -- statistics & numerical data Vaccination -- statistics & numerical data Humans Australia Canada Europe New Zealand United Kingdom United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- A 2015 Commonwealth Fund brief showed that--before the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act were introduced--the United States had worse outcomes and spent more on health care, largely because of greater use of medical technology and higher prices, compared to other high-income countries. By benchmarking the performance of the U.S. health care system against other countries--and updating with new data as they become available--we can gain important insights into our strengths and weaknesses and help policymakers and delivery system leaders identify areas for improvement. This analysis is the latest in a series of Commonwealth Fund cross-national comparisons that uses health data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to assess U.S. health care system spending, outcomes, risk factors and prevention, utilization, and quality, relative to 10 other high-income countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. We also compare U.S. performance to that of the OECD average, comprising 36 high-income member countries.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (18 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101761886 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101761886