Saturday 10 December 2011

How to measure the effectiveness of a national healthcare system?

It has been often been mistakenly thought that health outcomes are improved in countries with higher GDPs and those that spend a greater percentage of their GDP on healthcare.  Research shows that this is not necessarily the case.
 
For example, the Czech Republic seems to have generated a healthcare system in 20 years, since the Velvet revolution in 1989, that many nations have struggled with over the last 50 years or more and this is despite them still having an economy which is inferior to that of more developed countries.  This is one example that the money put into healthcare does not necessarily match the quality of healthcare outcomes as I have researched passionately over the last decade in the three continents I have lived in.




Christopher, CEO and founder director of Meritas International & Consulting, has spent all of his career in healthcare across three continents and is intrigued by healthcare delivery systems across the world.

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