Saunter back
NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons with me - because I agree that it's a GREAT source for statistics - it's quite accurate, too:
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases (most recent) by country
(It's a huge site - and can be confusing - here's how to get to individual statistics on various issues - and to that particular statistics page if you get lost or booted:
In the "
Statistics" section let's look at "
health" - (scroll to the bottom of this short list - and click "view all health statistics" - scroll down and then select: "
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases (most recent) by country ")
So, at this page we see a long list of countries/provinces - and their category (USA ranks #165)
From the GDP list bar-graph we have quite a few countries that we can compare
USA - # 1 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks #165 for tuberculosis success rate
Germany - # 4 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks #148 for tuberculosis success rate
Belgium - # 5 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 128 for tuberculosis success rate
Portugal - # 6 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 71 for tuberculosis success rate
Austria - # 7 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 146 for tuberculosis success rate
Canada - # 8 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 164 for tuberculosis success rate
Netherlands - # 9 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 79 for tuberculosis success rate
Denmark #10 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 45 for tuberculosis success rate
Sweden # 11 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 158 for tuberculosis success rate
Iceland # 13 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 177 for tuberculosis success rate
Italy # 14 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 13 for tuberculosis success rate
Australia # 15 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 66 for tuberculosis success rate
Norway # 16 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 38 for tuberculosis success rate
Hungary # 19 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 173 for tuberculosis success rate
Japan # 21 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 171 for tuberculosis success rate
New Zealand # 22 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 154 for tuberculosis success rate
Slovak Republic # 24 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 43 (Slovakia) for tuberculosis success rate
Czech Republic # 26 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 120 for tuberculosis success rate
Mexico # 27 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 85 for tuberculosis success rate
Korea # 28 GDP<-> healthcost (which one? North or Sourth)
North Korea: Ranks # 42 for tsr
South Korea: Ranks # 96 for tsr
Poland # 29 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 107 for tuberculosis success rate
Turkey # 30 GDP<-> healthcost, Ranks # 24 for tuberculosis success rate
If we were to just look at these in the Tuberculosis success rate and put them in order it would be:
Italy (#13)
Turkey (#24)
Norway (#38)
North Korea (#42)
Slovak Republic (#43)
Denmark (#45)
Australia (#66)
Portugal (#71)
Netherlands (#79)
Mexico (#85)
South Korea (#96)
Poland (#107)
Czech Republic (#120)
Belgium (#128)
Austria (#146)
Germany (#148)
New Zealand (#154)
Sweden (#158)
Canada (#164)
United States (#165)
Japan (#171)
Iceland (#177)
This all seems like a jumble - but it really speaks volumes for how accurate examining GDP is when trying to discuss HEALTH CARE. See - healthcare doesn't center or depend on crunched numbers - you can spend a million, like we do, and get crap care - or a thousand and get stellar care. . . and vise versa. What REALLY matter is HOW it's implimented - rules and regulations - and so on, so forth - when it comes to actually efficiency of Care.
I think these types of comparisons are the best way to accurately determine the most successful systems - it changes depending on the nature of the disease, social issue, location and so on.
What do you have a 100% BETTER chance of being treated for Tuberculosis in Portugal or even Mexico than in the USA and Canada?
when the Healthcare debate really got going I started to look at these numbers - and STILL don't believe that we're going to FIX any of these issues. We're just moving things around - We're not actually examining why things work better in Italy or Turkey - we're just looking at vapid #'s like GDP % and then drawing conclusions that less cost = more efficiency.