Spain continues to be a benchmark in terms of its healthcare services. This has been shown by the U.S. agency Bloomberg, which has published a ranking of the best health services in the world, and in which Spain is ranked number five with an efficiency level of 68.3 points.
Hong Kong, #1 in healthcare efficiency
On the other hand, the highest score was obtained by Hong Kong’s healthcare system, with 92.6, followed by Singapore (81.9), Japan (74.1) and Israel (68.7). At the bottom of the ranking, which included 48 countries, were Brazil (17.4), Serbia (27.2) and the United States (30.8).
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As the agency explained, several factors were taken into account to establish the efficiency ratio. The criteria were life expectancy (with a weight of 60 percent), the relative per capita cost of healthcare (30 percent), and the absolute cost per capita (10 percent). The relative cost is the per capita cost as a percentage of GDP per capita. Absolute cost is everything spent on health care that covers preventive and curative health services, family planning, nutrition activities, and emergency assistance.
Countries with populations of at least five million people, GDP of at least US$5,000 per capita and life expectancy of at least 70 years have been included.
In Spain, life expectancy is 82.3 years. Health spending is 10.4 percent of GDP per capita, and $3,027 per person. To compare with the lower end of the list, for example, in Brazil, life expectancy is 73.4 years, and health spending is 9.9 percent and $1,121 per capita.
