The Russian health-care system is one of the least efficient in the world, but how inefficient is it? As low as it gets within the universe measured by the Health-Care Efficiency Index from Bloomberg. This year’s Index scored Russia as the least efficient of the 55 countries covered.
While life expectancy remains one of the best indicators of health-care efficiency, it is also slow to change. Shifts in the results of the Index stem largely from growth in health expenditures. To the extent that governments play a leading role in regulating and providing healthcare, government intervention has a stronger influence in the index results.
The page contains data on the cost of essential healthcare services in Nigeria including diagnostics services, consulting services, and clinical procedures in public and private health facilities. The data is being collected under the Knoema's MarketTap Collection Program that mobilizes Knoema's in-country networks of paid volunteers to obtain client-defined streams of local data. Our established commercial network of collectors is global, expanding, and highly trained in mobile data collection.
World Immunization Week – celebrated in the last week of April – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions. Today, there are still 19.4 million unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children in the world. Link
The unique idea behind 5th International Research Conference on Science, Health and Medicine 2017 (IRCSHM 2017) is to provide an opportunity for leading academicians, scientists, researchers, doctors, medical practitioners, nurses and various industry professionals from around the world to network and have scientific discussion on the latest advancements in the closely interlinked domains in science, medicine and health and it's researching benefits for each other’s domain progress. IRCSHM 2017 will address multiple topics and issues of interest in the areas of science, medicine and health by practical exposure in the form of specialized...
The health care page compares each country’s health system and how much money it spends on it, noting that the United States has one of the world’s worst health systems according to the World Health Organization, yet spends the most money among the nations compared.