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11/9/12

The 36 Best Healthcare Systems In The World - by Adam Taylor and Samuel Blackstone

12 years ago, the World Health Organization released the World Health Report 2000. Inside the report there was an ambitious task — to rank the world's best healthcare systems.

The results became notorious — the US healthcare system came in 15th in overall performance, and first in overall expenditure per capita. That result meant that its overall ranking was 37th.

Note EU-Digest: conservative news resources like the Wall Street Journal which is owned by the Rupert media conglomerate cried foul about the way the report was put together by the World Health Organization. It has been suggested by many many of the WHO member countries to update the report which now dates back 12 years.

Read more: The 36 Best Healthcare Systems In The World - Business Insider

World Health Organization Ranking of Health Care Systems around the world

The World Health Organization ranked the health care systems of its 191 member states in its "World Health Report". This ranking provided a framework and measurement approach to examine and compare aspects of healthcare around the world. It developed a series of performance indicators to assess the overall level and distribution of health in the populations, and the responsiveness and financing of health care services. It was the organization's first ever analysis of the world's health systems.

In this ranking the top 20 countries were:
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