Post by kaima on Dec 26, 2019 23:13:06 GMT -7
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I don't beleive we looked at this before, though it is from 2017. The graph of the downturn in US healthcare conditions is shocking.
Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier
May 26, 2017 by Max Roser
This post was originally published on August 3, 2016. It was updated on 26 May 2017.
Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics.
This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on how healthcare is financed.
The graph below shows the relationship between what a country spends on health per person and life expectancy in that country between 1970 and 2015 for a number of rich countries.
The US stands out as an outlier: it spends far more on health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is not longer, but actually shorter than in other countries that spend far less.
If we look at the time trend for each country, we first notice that all countries have followed an upward trajectory—the population lives increasingly long lives as health expenditure increases. But again, the US stands out by following a much flatter trajectory: gains in life expectancy from additional health spending in the U.S. are much smaller than in the other high-income countries, particularly since the mid-1980s.
This development has led to a large inequality between the US and other rich countries. In the US health spending per capita is often more than three times higher than in other rich countries, yet the populations of countries with much lower health spending than the US enjoy considerably longer lives. In the most extreme case, we see that Americans spend more than 5-times what Chileans spend, yet the population of Chile actually lives longer than Americans.
This is the tip of the iceberg of graphical analysis. There is much more to find at
ourworldindata.org/financing-healthcare
and much more at both of these sites to digest, much less digest and present here!
Hapy data mining!
Kai
I don't beleive we looked at this before, though it is from 2017. The graph of the downturn in US healthcare conditions is shocking.
Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier
May 26, 2017 by Max Roser
This post was originally published on August 3, 2016. It was updated on 26 May 2017.
Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics.
This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on how healthcare is financed.
The graph below shows the relationship between what a country spends on health per person and life expectancy in that country between 1970 and 2015 for a number of rich countries.
The US stands out as an outlier: it spends far more on health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is not longer, but actually shorter than in other countries that spend far less.
If we look at the time trend for each country, we first notice that all countries have followed an upward trajectory—the population lives increasingly long lives as health expenditure increases. But again, the US stands out by following a much flatter trajectory: gains in life expectancy from additional health spending in the U.S. are much smaller than in the other high-income countries, particularly since the mid-1980s.
This development has led to a large inequality between the US and other rich countries. In the US health spending per capita is often more than three times higher than in other rich countries, yet the populations of countries with much lower health spending than the US enjoy considerably longer lives. In the most extreme case, we see that Americans spend more than 5-times what Chileans spend, yet the population of Chile actually lives longer than Americans.
This is the tip of the iceberg of graphical analysis. There is much more to find at
ourworldindata.org/financing-healthcare
and much more at both of these sites to digest, much less digest and present here!
Hapy data mining!
Kai