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Carol A Bernstein1, Bruce Hershfield2, Deborah C Cohen3
1President, American Psychiatric Association, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, USA, email carol.bernstein@nyumc.org.
Abstract:
The USA has the world's largest economy and the highest per capita spending on healthcare, but it lags behind other countries on a number of key health measures. It ranks 23rd in healthy life expectancy and 32nd in infant mortality (World Health Organization, 2009). In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked the US healthcare system as 1st in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations in the study).
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