As we have been learning all through of our public health education and last week’ lecture, we know that Global inequality in health care spending is large.
According to global GDP in 2003 America’s health statement in that year was 15.2 percent of GDP; this is equal to $1.7 trillion. Dr. Shahi once mentioned, “less than 5% of the world population live in United States” and we are reporting about half of the world's health spending money.
With that said this would be assumed that America’s health care stands somewhere between scale of 1-5 globally.
So what do you think are the reasons behind the fact that “U.S health system is ranked # 37th in the world?”
This is a real big issue, with an improved/access to technology, developments which we have, our country is still ranked 37.
3 comments:
All i can say is that for those of you aspiring to be doctors, the U.S. is the place to be. There's a reason why the U.S. is spending so much on healthcare, and not getting much better results. Plus there's always the perks from the pharmaceutical companies.
hi liyan, like we talked about in class, i think the reason for our low ranking is that even though we excel in advanced disease states and state of the art stuff, that doesn't take care of the big picture of health.
Why is the US lagging? Poor Stewardship!
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