What Drives Health-Care Spending Priorities? An International Survey of Health-Care Professionals

What Drives Health-Care Spending Priorities? An International Survey of Health-Care Professionals

Recent trends in international health care spending.

U.S. health care spending in an international context.

Using the most recent data on health spending published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), we explore reasons why U.S. health spending towers over that of other countries with much older populations. Prominent among the reasons are higher U.S. per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as well as a highly complex and fragmented payment system that weakens the dema...

Syria: What should health care professionals do?

The Syrian conflict started in March 2011 with civil unrest and has now progressed to civil war [1]. The death toll stands at more than 100 000 men, women and children [2]. The UN Human Rights Council has accused both the Syrian government and the opposition of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity [3]. Within a few years, Syria has evolved from the world’s second largest refugee-ho...

What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

Letter to Editor