Visualizations : OECD health spending per capita

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Created by: adaniel Created on: Saturday August 04, 6:57 AM

Data file: Total expenditure on health as a % of gross domestic product

Data source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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Anonymous says:

The level of health spending in itself has limited value. What we are really interested in is the level of health service provision. Unfortunatly, this is fairly hard to measure. However, using spending as a proxy for this is very misleading.

For example, in the US health care is incredibly expensive compared to other countries. There is a number of reasons for this one being the theory of "no expenses spared" when it comes to health care. Therefore insurance (the majority of health care spend) is higher. This also doesn't take into account the profit margin of the health sector which I believe would be considerably higher (in percentage terms) in the US than in other parts of the world.

Therefore this graph doesn't tell a complete story (like none will). In this case being a little biased towards the US.

Posted Sunday June 29, 9:02 AM
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Anonymous says:

The label of this chart is health spending per capita, but the data is health spending as a proportion of the GDP.

Posted Saturday August 30, 6:12 PM
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