Do you know if your (future) country of expatriation has an efficient healthcare system? According to the WHO, average global life expectancy is rising steadily, which suggests that the quality of healthcare also tends to increase. However, the rankings of health systems in the world show that only high-income countries are better off. Also, in these nations, healthcare costs often are quite high. Find out which countries have the best health systems.
Rankings of world's best healthcare systems
In its study called Mirror, Mirror 2017- International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care, the Commonwealth Fund assessed the performance of healthcare systems in 11 countries based on 72 indicators. The idea was to find out how efficient healthcare in the United States is. The survey ranked US healthcare clear last…
- United Kingdom
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Australia
- Germany
- The Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- France
- Canada
- U.S.A
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The Bloomberg annual study, Most Efficient Health Care 2018, ranked no less than 56 countries. Asia is the big winner of these rankings.
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Spain
- Italy
- S. Korea
- Israel
- Japan
- Australia
- Taiwan
- United Arab Emirates
Europe's best healthcare systems
Every year, the Health Consumer Powerhouse publishes a study about healthcare systems across Europe: the Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI). This report ranks 35 countries according to the quality of their healthcare systems, based on 48 indicators.
- Switzerland
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Denmark
- Belgium
- Finland
- Luxemburg
- Sweden
- Austria
- Iceland
Ranking world's healthcare systems: what criteria?
To succeed in ranking healthcare systems around the world, surveys use a more or less significant amount of indicators.
- The EHCI study ranks healthcare systems based on such criteria as patient rights, waiting times for treatment, services provided to patients and prevention.
- The Commonwealth Fund classifies indicators into 5 groups: quality, access, efficiency, equity and healthy lives. Thus, the survey includes indicators like safety, waiting times, administrative organisation and equal access to healthcare.
- Bloomberg uses life expectancy, healthcare cost as percentage of GDP and healthcare cost per capita to rank world's healthcare systems.