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This is a list of countries by quality of healthcare as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . [ 1 ] The list includes 7 types of cancer along with strokes and heart attacks.
Part One: What medical travelers should know; how to vet international doctors, surgeons and facilities; accreditation overview; travel cautions; post-op care; medical travel facilitators. Part Two: Most visited hospitals and their specialties. An overview of 150 hospitals in 22 countries offering international healthcare services.
Government-guaranteed health care for all citizens of a country, often called universal health care, is a broad concept that has been implemented in several ways.The common denominator for all such programs is some form of government action aimed at broadly extending access to health care and setting minimum standards.
Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) is an umbrella organisation for such organisations providing international healthcare accreditation. [8] Its offices are based in the Republic of Ireland. ISQua is a small non-profit limited company with members in over 70 countries.
To attract wealthy UAE nationals and expatriates who traditionally have traveled abroad for serious medical care, Dubai is developing Dubai Healthcare City, a hospital free zone that will offer international-standard advanced private health care and provide an academic medical training center; completion is scheduled for 2010.
The last country I visited on the trip, Brazil, blew my mind. Locals in Rio de Janeiro, where I celebrated Carnaval in 2013, said I was just like a "carioca" — what locals call themselves.
Timeline of a few OECD countries: 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.