HLTH245 Lecture 2: In The News 1
17 Jan 2019
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In the news 2: canada"s health-care system is third-last in new ranking of developed countries by monique scotti, 2017. In july of 2017, monique scotti of global news, reported a review, conducted by the. Commonwealth fund, that compared healthcare systems in 11 developed nations, in which. Canada came third-last, beating out france and the bottom ranked united states (scotti, 2017). Out of 11, canada"s health care system performance ranked 9th. The performance ranking was based on 72 metrics gathered into 5 categories, in which countries were ranked from 1 to 11. Canada"s rankings in these categories were 6th in care process and administrative efficiency, 10th in access, and 9th in both equity and health care outcomes (schneider, sarnak, squires, shah, & However, in the previous review conducted by the commonwealth fund in 2014, canada was ranked second-to-last, meaning that the countries performance had jumped up on spot since then.
