Over the past half-century, the U.S. has seen sizable improvements in both mortality and disease burden due to cardiovascular disease, along with recent signs of improvement in the quality of care provided to heart disease patients. Cardiovascular disease — which …
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Mental health and substance use disorders are the leading cause of disease burden in the United States. With 10.1 deaths due to mental health or substance abuse disorders …
Note: A related chart collection is now updated with more recent data.
Despite having significantly higher health spending than comparably wealthy and sizable countries, the U.S. lags behind other countries in several measures of health outcomes, with worse life expectancy, …
The cost of prescription drugs has received a good deal of attention recently, driven in part by a spike is spending in 2014 and 2015. After several years of fairly low growth, per capita prescription drugs costs are estimated to …
Measuring the quality of healthcare in the U.S.
How can we know if the performance of the health system overall in the U.S. is good and if it is getting better or worse over time? Can a meaningful and reasonably understandable set of national quality measures be identified, …
Note: An updated collection of charts exploring infant mortality in the U.S. and comparable countries is available here.
Infant mortality rate (death within their first year of life) is a widely-utilized indicator of population health. Our new chart collection …
A new study examining the value of cancer care in the United States compared to Western Europe ignited a string of responses and discussion regarding the best way to measure the quality of cancer care.
The study by Samir Soneji …
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 …
In this blog post, we take a look at how utilization and price of healthcare in the United States compare to similarly wealthy and sizable OECD countries. The analysis uses 2013 health utilization data from the OECD Health Statistics database, …
Although Medicare provides Americans over the age of 65 with nearly universal health insurance coverage, seniors in the U.S. nevertheless face more cost-related access problems than elderly adults in other industrialized countries, according to a recent study.
An international survey …