title: Comparing health system performance in OECD countries. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
abstract: We present data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Health Organization on the performance of the health care systems in twenty-nine industrialized countries in 1998. We also compare the performance of the United States with the other industrialized countries for selected indicators in 1960, 1980, and 1998. On most indicators the U.S. relative performance declined since 1960; on none did it improve.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Hussey
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005062:European Union; D005260:Female; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009017:Morbidity; D009026:Mortality; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014600:Utilization Review; D014944:World Health Organization