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How does the U.S. healthcare system compare to health systems of other high-income countries, and how has it fared over time? This chart collection accompanies our animated video, “Health of the Healthcare System,” a diagnostic look at the state of …
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently updated their disease-based health spending estimates with new data that allows users to examine national health spending trends by disease category from 2000 – 2012. The BEA satellite account differs from the official …
Infant mortality rate (death within their first year of life) is a widely-utilized indicator of population health. Our new chart collection highlights infant mortality rates in the U.S. compared to rates in similarly wealthy and sizable OECD countries, as well …
In the U.S. and comparable countries there has been a reduction in disease burden, as measured by Disability Adjusted Life Years (or DALYs), in recent years. Our latest chart collection, which analyzes data from the Institute for Health Metrics and …
While health spending growth has slowed in recent years, over the long-term healthcare costs have grown significantly, with per capita spending increasing about tenfold since the early 1980s. Health spending growth has consistently outpaced U.S. economic growth and is higher …
Analysis of OECD data shows that the U.S. has the highest rate of infant mortality among comparably wealthy countries. The OECD data are limited, however, in that countries vary in the methods by which they report infant mortality.
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Using state-level mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System, researchers estimated annual life expectancy by race for the period from 1990 to 2009. Over the twenty year period, the racial gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites declined …