GOOD Transparency on World Health | VizWorld.com
GOOD magazine has a great new infographic (”Transparency”) online visualizing various statistics about Health in various nations. Every country in the world approaches health care differently, but the end goal is the same: Keep citizens as healthy as possible at the lowest cost … This is a look at 12 countries around the world that examines how far the money they spend on health care goes toward affecting the health of their citizens. It’s a great graphic showing life expancy, various mortality numbers (per 100k population), and cost per capita on healthcare. It’s a great way of understanding why President Obama is looking to Canada and Australia for ideas on US Health Care Reform. However, much data is still missing, particularly on how much money is spent on cutting-edge, experimental, or research treatments.
My “GOOD”ness! This is fantastically interesting. GOOD does such a great job of pulling in people via informative and interactive visualizations of data.
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Considering our country is the 3 countries above the bottom in this diagram alone is not every encouraging.
This year the World Health Organization ranked the US as the 37th best nation for health care. We were placed below the Domincan Republic. http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107
And still there are people fighting tooth and nail to keep healthcare exactly as it stands? If it’s not broken, then don’t fix it. But when it is falling apart at the seams than you better put some back into it and make the thing work again. Our system is falling apart – so bring out the mechanics and overhaul this sucker.