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China has free health care and lower rates of obesity. ... with a rate of 19.85 compared with China’s 20.4. So it’s a tight race. ... America’s healthcare system gets plenty of its own flak ...
The report suggests that without health care reforms the spending on health care in China will increase to 9% of China's GDP by 2035 which is an increase from the 5.6% of China's GDP in 2014. [34] With substantial urbanization, attention to health care has changed.
Rural cooperative medical systems provided subsidized health care to rural residents. [2] One aspect of this system was barefoot doctors, who received some training and then delivered primary care medicine to those who needed it. [2] Barefoot doctors were a good contribution to primary health systems in China during the Cultural Revolution.
Health care cost as percent of GDP (total economy of a nation). [2] [3] Graph below is life expectancy versus healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US average of $10,447 in 2018. [7] See: list of countries by life expectancy.
This is a list of countries ranked by the quality of healthcare, as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [1].The ranking takes into account various health outcomes, including survival rates for seven types of cancer, as well as for strokes and heart attacks.
In 2000–2001, the budget allocation for the health sector was approximately US$144 million; health expenditures per capita were estimated at US$4.50, compared with US$10 on average in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2000 the country counted one hospital bed per 4,900 population and more than 27,000 people per primary health care facility.
The universal health care system was adopted in Brazil in 1988 after the end of the military dictatorship. However, universal health care was available many years before, in some cities, once the 27th amendment to the 1969 Constitution imposed the duty of applying 6% of their income in healthcare on the municipalities. [158]
Chinese Health Care System Reform at a Crossroads Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) report. (Mar 1, 2007) Qingyue Meng, Xingzhu Liu, Reforming China's Healthcare System: Beijing's Strategy for Establishing Universal Coverage China Brief, 6(24). (December 6, 2006) Gregory C Chow. An Economic Analysis of Health Care in China.doc Princeton ...