The word healthcare is used to designate a wide range of institutions and programs that aim to keep us healthy by treating or preventing sickness, injury, and other physical or mental problems.
Medical physicians, dentists, nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists all fall under the umbrella of healthcare. Numerous national healthcare systems are available, and access to healthcare varies widely across nations and people due to economic or societal considerations.
Many individuals and countries consider healthcare access to be a basic human right. Quality healthcare may harm a person’s life expectancy if they don’t access reliable, accessible, and inexpensive healthcare.
Nations may achieve better health outcomes with efficient and effective healthcare systems.
Care processes (preventative measures, safe care, coordinated care and engagement, and patient preferences) are taken into account when determining healthcare quality, as are accessibility (affordability and speed), administrative efficiency, equality, and healthcare results (population health, mortality amenable to healthcare, and disease-specific health outcomes).
Finding a world-class healthcare system is not difficult. Several variables may be utilized to assess which health care systems are most successful.
Systems in play are very complicated, and there is a great deal of disagreement on what aspects are essential and what a perfect system looks like in the real world. But healthcare is essential. Thus health-focused firms are always looking for the greatest system possible.
Who among the world’s nations offers the greatest medical care?
An analysis of the health care system’s overall quality by CEOWorld Magazine’s Health Care Index “includes a statistical analysis of the competency of health care professionals (doctor’s staff and other health workers), cost (USD per capita per annum), quality medicine availability and government readiness.“
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Using the following parameters, each nation is given a score out of 100 for one, and the overall score is then rounded up. In terms of health care, the following 10 nations top the list:
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Denmark
- Austria
- Japan
- Australia
- France
- Spain
- Belgium
- United Kingdom
Country | LPI 2020 Ranking | LPI 2019 Ranking | CEO World Rank | 2022 Population |
---|---|---|---|---|
Denmark | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5834.9500 |
Norway | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5511.3700 |
Switzerland | 3 | 3 | 18 | 8773.6370 |
Sweden | 4 | 4 | 28 | 10218.9710 |
Finland | 5 | 5 | 12 | 5554.9600 |
Netherlands | 6 | 6 | 11 | 17211.4470 |
New Zealand | 7 | 7 | 16 | 4898.2030 |
Germany | 8 | 8 | 17 | 83883.5960 |
Luxembourg | 9 | 9 | 642.3710 | |
Austria | 10 | 12 | 4 | 9066.7100 |
Iceland | 11 | 14 | 41 | 345.3930 |
Ireland | 12 | 11 | 80 | 5020.1990 |
United Kingdom | 13 | 10 | 10 | 68497.9070 |
Canada | 14 | 13 | 23 | 38388.4190 |
Singapore | 15 | 16 | 24 | 5943.5460 |
Australia | 16 | 17 | 6 | 26068.7920 |
Hong Kong | 17 | 15 | 36 | 7604.2990 |
United States | 18 | 18 | 30 | 334805.2690 |
Japan | 19 | 19 | 5 | 125584.8380 |
Taiwan | 20 | 22 | 2 | 23888.5950 |
Estonia | 21 | 21 | 32 | 1321.9100 |
France | 22 | 20 | 7 | 65584.5180 |
Belgium | 23 | 23 | 9 | 11668.2780 |
Spain | 24 | 25 | 8 | 46719.1420 |
Malta | 25 | 24 | 444.0330 | |
Slovenia | 26 | 27 | 47 | 2078.0340 |
Portugal | 27 | 26 | 22 | 10140.5700 |
South Korea | 28 | 29 | 1 | 51329.8990 |
Israel | 30 | 31 | 21 | 8922.8920 |
Italy | 31 | 30 | 37 | 60262.7700 |
Latvia | 32 | 32 | 48 | 1848.8370 |
Cyprus | 33 | 33 | 76 | 1223.3870 |
Lithuania | 34 | 34 | 31 | 2661.7080 |
Slovakia | 35 | 35 | 54 | 5460.1930 |
Poland | 36 | 36 | 51 | 37739.7850 |
Chile | 37 | 37 | 44 | 19250.1950 |
Costa Rica | 38 | 38 | 50 | 5182.3540 |
Uruguay | 39 | 39 | 39 | 3496.0160 |
Malaysia | 40 | 42 | 34 | 33181.0720 |
Greece | 41 | 41 | 26 | 10316.6370 |
United Arab Emirates | 42 | 40 | 20 | 10081.7850 |
Croatia | 43 | 43 | 42 | 4059.2860 |
Mauritius | 44 | 45 | 1274.7270 | |
Qatar | 45 | 44 | 33 | 2979.9150 |
Hungary | 46 | 46 | 49 | 9606.2590 |
Romania | 47 | 47 | 69 | 19031.3350 |
Bulgaria | 48 | 49 | 67 | 6844.5970 |
Panama | 49 | 48 | 56 | 4446.9640 |
Montenegro | 50 | 51 | 627.9500 | |
Seychelles | 51 | 50 | 99.4260 | |
Serbia | 52 | 52 | 77 | 8653.0160 |
Georgia | 53 | 53 | 79 | 3968.7380 |
China | 54 | 54 | 46 | 1448471.4000 |
Armenia | 55 | 63 | 2971.9660 | |
Bahrain | 56 | 58 | 1783.9830 | |
Indonesia | 57 | 61 | 52 | 279134.5050 |
Kuwait | 58 | 60 | 71 | 4380.3260 |
North Macedonia | 59 | 55 | 2081.3040 | |
Trinidad and Tobago | 60 | 59 | 1406.5850 | |
Peru | 61 | 57 | 62 | 33684.2080 |
Kazakhstan | 62 | 66 | 82 | 19205.0430 |
Argentina | 63 | 56 | 27 | 46010.2340 |
Thailand | 64 | 65 | 13 | 70078.2030 |
Jamaica | 65 | 67 | 2985.0940 | |
Oman | 66 | 62 | 5323.9930 | |
Albania | 67 | 64 | 74 | 2866.3740 |
Mexico | 68 | 68 | 29 | 131562.7720 |
Belarus | 69 | 70 | 57 | 9432.8000 |
Brazil | 70 | 69 | 63 | 215353.5930 |
Saudi Arabia | 71 | 72 | 55 | 35844.9090 |
Dominican Republic | 72 | 76 | 72 | 11056.3700 |
Vietnam | 73 | 81 | 66 | 98953.5410 |
Colombia | 74 | 71 | 35 | 51512.7620 |
Russia | 76 | 75 | 58 | 145805.9470 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 77 | 73 | 3249.3170 | |
Azerbaijan | 78 | 91 | 86 | 10300.2050 |
Paraguay | 79 | 78 | 7305.8430 | |
Moldova | 80 | 83 | 4013.1710 | |
Suriname | 81 | 79 | 596.8310 | |
Botswana | 82 | 80 | 2441.1620 | |
Philippines | 83 | 82 | 38 | 112508.9940 |
Sri Lanka | 84 | 77 | 40 | 21575.8420 |
Mongolia | 85 | 88 | 3378.0780 | |
Jordan | 86 | 86 | 43 | 10300.8690 |
South Africa | 87 | 84 | 53 | 60756.1350 |
Namibia | 88 | 87 | 2633.8740 | |
Ecuador | 89 | 85 | 25 | 18113.3610 |
Kyrgyzstan | 90 | 89 | 6728.2710 | |
Guyana | 91 | 90 | 794.0450 | |
Ukraine | 92 | 96 | 81 | 43192.1220 |
El Salvador | 93 | 100 | 6550.3890 | |
Turkey | 94 | 92 | 65 | 85561.9760 |
Belize | 95 | 93 | 412.1900 | |
Morocco | 96 | 94 | 83 | 37772.7560 |
Uzbekistan | 97 | 102 | 34382.0840 | |
Tunisia | 99 | 95 | 59 | 12046.6560 |
Ghana | 100 | 97 | 32395.4500 | |
India | 101 | 98 | 19 | 1406631.7760 |
Guatemala | 102 | 99 | 18584.0390 | |
Cuba | 103 | 105 | 11305.6520 | |
Rwanda | 104 | 103 | 13600.4640 | |
Lebanon | 105 | 104 | 45 | 6684.8490 |
Bolivia | 106 | 106 | 11992.6560 | |
Honduras | 107 | 107 | 10221.2470 | |
Algeria | 108 | 108 | 68 | 45350.1480 |
Turkmenistan | 109 | 113 | 6201.9430 | |
Senegal | 110 | 111 | 17653.6710 | |
Nicaragua | 111 | 109 | 6779.1000 | |
Tajikistan | 112 | 110 | 9957.4640 | |
Kenya | 113 | 112 | 70 | 56215.2210 |
Nepal | 114 | 114 | 61 | 30225.5820 |
Laos | 115 | 115 | 7481.0230 | |
Gambia | 116 | 117 | 2558.4820 | |
Tanzania | 117 | 121 | 63298.5500 | |
Cambodia | 118 | 120 | 17168.6390 | |
Djibouti | 119 | 122 | 1016.0970 | |
Iran | 120 | 119 | 78 | 86022.8370 |
Egypt | 121 | 124 | 84 | 106156.6920 |
Gabon | 122 | 116 | 2331.5330 | |
Zambia | 123 | 118 | 19470.2340 | |
Ivory Coast | 124 | 129 | 27742.2980 | |
Bangladesh | 125 | 123 | 85 | 167885.6890 |
Benin | 126 | 128 | 12784.7260 | |
Myanmar | 127 | 127 | 55227.1430 | |
Comoros | 128 | 125 | 907.4190 | |
Papua New Guinea | 129 | 126 | 9292.1690 | |
Lesotho | 130 | 130 | 2175.6990 | |
Equatorial Guinea | 131 | 132 | 1496.6620 | |
Malawi | 132 | 131 | 20180.8390 | |
Uganda | 133 | 134 | 48432.8630 | |
Eswatini | 134 | 133 | 1184.8170 | |
Burkina Faso | 135 | 135 | 22102.8380 | |
Madagascar | 136 | 138 | 29178.0770 | |
Iraq | 137 | 136 | 87 | 42164.9650 |
Pakistan | 138 | 139 | 88 | 229488.9940 |
Guinea | 139 | 143 | 13865.6910 | |
Togo | 140 | 140 | 8680.8370 | |
Liberia | 141 | 137 | 5305.1170 | |
Mozambique | 142 | 142 | 33089.4610 | |
Zimbabwe | 143 | 141 | 15331.4280 | |
Nigeria | 144 | 146 | 73 | 216746.9340 |
Sierra Leone | 145 | 144 | 8306.4360 | |
Venezuela | 146 | 145 | 89 | 29266.9910 |
Guinea-Bissau | 147 | 147 | 2063.3670 | |
Mali | 148 | 150 | 21473.7640 | |
Libya | 149 | 148 | 7040.7450 | |
Ethiopia | 150 | 149 | 120812.6980 | |
Cameroon | 151 | 152 | 27911.5480 | |
Republic of the Congo | 152 | 153 | 5797.8050 | |
Niger | 153 | 151 | 26083.6600 | |
Mauritania | 154 | 156 | 4901.9810 | |
Haiti | 155 | 154 | 11680.2830 | |
Angola | 156 | 155 | 35027.3430 | |
Burundi | 157 | 158 | 12624.8400 | |
Syria | 158 | 157 | 19364.8090 | |
Eritrea | 160 | 160 | 3662.2440 | |
DR Congo | 161 | 162 | 95240.7920 | |
Afghanistan | 162 | 163 | 40754.3880 | |
Somalia | 163 | 161 | 16841.7950 | |
Chad | 164 | 164 | 17413.5800 | |
Yemen | 165 | 166 | 31154.8670 | |
Central African Republic | 166 | 165 | 5016.6780 | |
South Sudan | 167 | 167 | 11618.5110 |