Measuring the health of nations: analysis of mortality amenable to health care.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess whether and how the rankings of the world's health systems based on disability adjusted life expectancy as done in the 2000 World Health Report change when using the narrower concept of mortality amenable to health care, an outcome more closely linked to health system performance.

Citation

British Medical Journal, 327, 1129-1132 pp. [doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7424.1129]

Measuring the health of nations: analysis of mortality amenable to health care.

Published 1 January 2003