Finland’s health care is the most efficient of the western countries
Система здравоохранения Финляндии наиболее эффективная среди западных стран.
The national daily Helsingin Sanomat reports that Finland is the top country in the West where health care efficiency is concerned.
“Finland’s health care is the most efficient in the West, says a recent Swedish study. It places Sweden as third best in a comparison of 16 countries. Spain is in second place.
The least efficient are Denmark and Austria as well as the US, which was at the tail-end of quite a few comparisons. It uses the most resources but gets bad results with them.
Finland’s resources are the smallest of the countries compared. What is meant by resources is both the amount of funds spent on health care as well as the number of doctors and nurses. There are especially few nurses in Finland.
Yet Finland achieves relatively good results, acknowledges the report by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions.
In turn according to the report Sweden and Spain achieve ‘good results with decent resources’.
Efficiency was measured by 18 types of measurement. These were newborn life expectancy, deaths by disease, consumption of antibiotics and child vaccination, among other things.”
Päivi Repo - Helsingin Sanomat 14 June 2008
Helsinki times, 19 June
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The national daily Helsingin Sanomat reports that Finland is the top country in the West where health care efficiency is concerned.
“Finland’s health care is the most efficient in the West, says a recent Swedish study. It places Sweden as third best in a comparison of 16 countries. Spain is in second place.
The least efficient are Denmark and Austria as well as the US, which was at the tail-end of quite a few comparisons. It uses the most resources but gets bad results with them.
Finland’s resources are the smallest of the countries compared. What is meant by resources is both the amount of funds spent on health care as well as the number of doctors and nurses. There are especially few nurses in Finland.
Yet Finland achieves relatively good results, acknowledges the report by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions.
In turn according to the report Sweden and Spain achieve ‘good results with decent resources’.
Efficiency was measured by 18 types of measurement. These were newborn life expectancy, deaths by disease, consumption of antibiotics and child vaccination, among other things.”
Päivi Repo - Helsingin Sanomat 14 June 2008
Helsinki times, 19 June
http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1820:swedish-study-finlands-health-care-is-the-most-efficient-of-the-western-countries&catid=13:finnish-papers&Itemid=159