title: International healthcare expenditures: spending totals and public satisfaction among the OECD nations.
abstract: As an introduction to this Hospital Topics theme issue on international healthcare systems, our guest editor and one of our authors present aggregate health expenditures and public-satisfaction data from member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Although healthcare funding is not the explicit focus of this issue, it underlies most of the points raised, and however the health systems examined here may vary in structure or impact, financing remains a shared challenge and one of our best base lines for comparison.
authors: George Washington University, Washington, DC.
authors: R F
authors: RF
authors: Southby
authors: J S
authors: JS
authors: Rakich
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002170:Canada; D005060:Europe; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007564:Japan; D009520:New Zealand; D014421:Turkey; D014481:United States