Best healthcare system in the world: Andorra. Rating of the leading medical journal The Lancet

[Irina Rybalchenko]

Best healthcare system in the world: Andorra. Rating of the leading medical journal The Lancet

The UK medical journal The Lancet has published a ranking of the healthcare systems HAQ (Healthcare Access and Quality Index) of 195 countries. The rating is based on an estimate of the mortality rate: the ratio of number of deaths VS adequate medical care in each case.

Experts analyzed the data on the number of deaths from 32 diseases during the period from 1990 to 2015, charging each country with a certain number of points.

The leader of the “best health care system in the world” rating is Andorra. The second place was taken by Iceland, the third – Switzerland. The TOP 10 countries with the best HAQ score are:

1 Andorra (95 points)

2 Iceland (94 points)

3 Switzerland (92 points)

4 Sweden (90)

5 Norway (90)

6 Australia (90)

7 Finland (90)

8 Spain (90)