A series of Commonwealth Fund–sponsored articles about international health system issues offers lessons for the U.S. The articles address:
- the equity of access to primary care in New Zealand;
- the process of selecting shared cardiac care quality indicators for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations;
- an effort to develop international indicators of mental health care quality;
- a comparison of specialty referral rates in the U.S. and U.K.;
- a look at for-profit and not-for-profit primary care services in New Zealand;
- disparities in indigenous health in New Zealand and the U.S.;
- a look at the no-fault compensation system for medical injuries in New Zealand;
- a comparison of who files for compensation through this system and those New Zealanders who complain to the Health and Disability Commissioner; and
- a look at a successful model of chronic care coordination that has been piloted in South Africa.