An Online Resource for Exploring Health Care Around the World
<p>Across the globe, health care policymakers face mounting pressure to lower costs while improving the quality and safety of care. The U.S. can learn a lot by examining other health systems, their performance in relation to ours, and their health care delivery and payment innovations. </p><p>A new website, <a href="http://international.commonwealthfund.org/" target="_blank">international.commonwealthfund.org</a>, profiles the health care systems of 18 countries. Learn how care is delivered and financed, what’s being done to control costs, what new reforms and innovations have been introduced, and much more. You can even delve deep into health system statistics. The site draws on the newly updated International Profiles of Health Care Systems, written by leading experts in each country and edited by researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science and The Commonwealth Fund.</p>
<p>Users can also view data visualizations from The Commonwealth Fund’s most recent international health policy survey.</p>