Comments on: World Health – GOOD Magazine Transparency http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/ Making Simple Sense From Complex Data Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:32:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Cost of living long « Carsons Post http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/#comment-980 Cost of living long « Carsons Post Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:10:30 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/?p=2989#comment-980 [...] Cost of living long Interesting comparison of countries: healthcare costs per capita, longevity … from simplecomplexity.net [...] [...] Cost of living long Interesting comparison of countries: healthcare costs per capita, longevity … from simplecomplexity.net [...]

]]> By: Mike http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/#comment-941 Mike Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:47:19 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/?p=2989#comment-941 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/ 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/

]]> By: Neal Levene http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/#comment-928 Neal Levene Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:42:27 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/?p=2989#comment-928 Thanks for the grammar catch - I'll make the change Thanks for the grammar catch – I’ll make the change

]]> By: Annie http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/#comment-927 Annie Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:38:08 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/?p=2989#comment-927 teeming. Thanks for sharing. This is interesting. teeming.

Thanks for sharing. This is interesting.

]]> By: GOOD Transparency on World Health | VizWorld.com http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/#comment-926 GOOD Transparency on World Health | VizWorld.com Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:01:12 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/?p=2989#comment-926 [...] | World Health (Raw Image). via Simple Complexity Related News & Resources Health-Care Reform Obfuscated by Infographics GOOD [...] [...] | World Health (Raw Image). via Simple Complexity Related News & Resources Health-Care Reform Obfuscated by Infographics GOOD [...]

]]> By: Neal Levene http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/#comment-925 Neal Levene Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:13:24 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/?p=2989#comment-925 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. 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.

]]> By: Olaf http://simplecomplexity.net/world-health-good-magazine-transparency/#comment-924 Olaf Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:58:50 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/?p=2989#comment-924 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. 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.

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