THis is taken from a report on quality of health care: looking at 21 cherry picked outcomes.
100 is a bad result: the bigger the numbers the better.
What is missing is the politics and structure. At one end you have the USA pre Obamacare: fairly decentralized, over regulated… and doing well on interventions. Breast cancer, for instance, is sensitive to timing issues. At the other extreme is the UK, which is state run, completely centralized and regulated. It does poorly on interventions, but better with immunization and primary care.
New Zealand, which has a mixture of system,s does averagey everywhere. The one place we do badly is suicide rate: there has been a large amount of public health intervetiosn here and increased form filling, but (in my cynical view) getting jobs in the dairy industry for young men made far more difference.
