eTH OF NATIONS UPDATING AN EARLIER ANALYSIS Ellen Nolte PhD C Martin McKee MD DSc Health AffairsJanuaryFebruary 2008 2715815071 This summary was prepared by Deborah Lorber Commonwealth Fund Pub 1090 ID: 893383
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In the Literatur e TH OF NATIONS: UPDATING AN EARLIER ANALYSIS Ellen Nolte, Ph.D. C. Martin McKee, M.D., D.Sc. Health Affairs January/February 2008 27(1):58–71 This summary was prepared by Deborah Lorber. Commonwealth Fund Pub. 1090 January 2008 In the Literature presents brief summaries of Commonwealth Fund–supported research recently pub-lished in professional journals. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND ONE EAST 75TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10021-2692 TEL 212.606.3800 FAX 212.606.3500 E-MAIL info@cmwf.org In a Commonwealth Fund-supported study trialized countries, researchers found that the tions improved dramatically between the two –98 and 2002–
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03—the lightly on the measure. In “ Measuring the Health of Nations: Up- dating an Earlier Analysis of “amenable mortality”—that is, deaths before age 75 that are countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. According to the authors, if the The concept of amenable mortality was assess the quality and performance of health systems and to track changes over time. For this study, the researchers used data from the World Health U.S. Ranks Last mortality fell by an average of 16 percent in all countries except the U.S., where the tries on this measure—ahead of only 100,000 people were 64.8 in France, 71.2 The largest reductions in amenable mortal-