As usual, an excellent infographic from GOOD Magazine.
Every country in the world approaches health care differently, but the end goal is the same: Keep citizens as healthy as possible at the lowest cost . . . This is a look at 12 countries around the world that examines how far the money they spend on health care goes toward affecting the health of their citizens.
This infographic is just teaming teeming with excellent information:
- Life expectancy in years
- Maternal mortality deaths (per 100K live births)
- Infant mortality deaths (per 1K live births)
- Noncommunicable-disease-related deaths (per 100K pop)
- Cardiovascular deaths (per 100K pop)
- Cost per capita of healthcare
- % of GNP spent on health care.
There is a lot that is good about this infographic. I don’t understand the scale on the right hand side of the figure that is 72 – 82. I think it has something to do with life expectancy, but I couldn’t tell.
I think it might be equally interesting to look at each of the pieces of data by country. A lot of data is presented clearly in this graphic.
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Very nice graph.
The scale on the right is indeed the life expectancy. The blue fluid in the bag visualizes the expectancy per country quite nicely.
Oh my, I didn’t even notice that the fluid in the bag was at different levels. Clever. I guess that technique doesn’t work for me. Now that I see it, I can’t understand how I didn’t see it.
teeming.
Thanks for sharing. This is interesting.
Thanks for the grammar catch – I’ll make the change
Interesting that you like this graphic. It is pretty but has low information density. (I doubt Edward Tufte would speak glowingly about it.)
I’ve been running a series of articles on health care on my site. The most recent one combined longevity, infant mortality, cancer survival and premature death statistics for 11 countries into a single “health care effectiveness” score. That article is here:
http://newswithnumbers.com/2009/11/04/overall-health-care-effectiveness/
Earlier articles compared doctors per capita vs health care spending per capita and had a surprising result. In a free market you’d expect moderate to high doctors per capita and low to moderate spending per capita. The logic being that people will become doctors while there’s money to be made and as soon as there are enough doctors competition will kick in and costs will drop and fewer people will become doctors. It’s interesting to find out how the US fared by this measure.
http://newswithnumbers.com/2009/07/14/health-care-us-vs-world/