HEALTH CARE
SitemapPreventive HC spending
Prevention accounts for what percentage
of current health care spending?
of current health care spending?
Values express spending in 2007 on preventive and health programs as a percentage of health care expenditure. Source: OECD Health Data 2010; SGI estimate.
Preventive HC spending scores
Preventive HC spending scores
Health carePreventive HC spending
To ensure comparability, observed values are transformed into SGI scores on a scale from 1 to 10. The lowest value translates into score 1, the best value into score 10. Remaining values are transformed according to the original data distribution.
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Value
Score
| 1 | Canada | 7.3 | 10.00 |
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| 2 | Finland | 5.8 | 7.99 |
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| 3 | Netherlands | 5.1 | 7.04 |
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| 3 | New Zealand | 5.1 | 7.04 |
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| 5 | Slovakia | 5.0 | 6.91 |
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| 6 | Belgium | 4.1 | 5.70 |
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| 6 | Hungary | 4.1 | 5.70 |
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| 8 | Germany | 3.7 | 5.16 |
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| 9 | Sweden | 3.6 | 5.03 |
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| 9 | USA | 3.6 | 5.03 |
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| 11 | Chile | 3.0 | 4.22 |
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| 11 | Greece | 3.0 | 4.22 |
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| 11 | Ireland | 3.0 | 4.22 |
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| 14 | Mexico | 2.8 | 3.96 |
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| 15 | Spain | 2.5 | 3.55 |
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| 16 | Japan | 2.4 | 3.42 |
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| 16 | Poland | 2.4 | 3.42 |
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| 16 | Turkey | 2.4 | 3.42 |
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| 19 | Czech Rep. | 2.3 | 3.28 |
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| 19 | Switzerland | 2.3 | 3.28 |
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| 21 | Australia | 2.1 | 3.01 |
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| 22 | France | 2.0 | 2.88 |
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| 22 | Norway | 2.0 | 2.88 |
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| 22 | South Korea | 2.0 | 2.88 |
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| 25 | Austria | 1.9 | 2.75 |
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| 25 | Portugal | 1.9 | 2.75 |
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| 25 | UK | 1.9 | 2.75 |
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| 28 | Iceland | 1.6 | 2.34 |
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| 29 | Denmark | 1.4 | 2.07 |
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| 30 | Luxembourg | 1.1 | 1.67 |
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| 31 | Italy | 0.6 | 1.00 |
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Key concepts
Health-care systems are struggling to balance the demands of inclusiveness, aging populations and rising costs. Reforms are underway across the OECD, triggering often-rancorous political debate but as yet having sporadic success with cost containment.
Goals are nevertheless clear: Public health care policies should aim at providing high-quality health care for the largest possible share of the population, at the lowest possible costs. Of the three criteria – quality, inclusiveness and cost efficiency – efficiency should be given less weight if the first two criteria can be considered fulfilled.
In most countries today, there is a combination of public and private health care systems. Preventative care is increasingly vital as populations age and advances in medical technology translate into higher costs.
Performance comparison
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