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What share of total health care expenditure is spent on preventive health care?

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Definition:	Spending on preventive and health programs, percent of current health care expenditure
Year:	2017
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, TUR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2016), CAN (2018), ISR (2015), JPN (2016), KOR (2018), NZL (2007), TUR (2000)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Health expenditure and financing URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted May 21st, 2020
Source 2:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, GBR
Exceptions:	HRV (2016), ITA (2018), MLT (2015), NLD (2018), NOR (2018)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Health care expenditure by function [hlth_sha11_hc] URL: https://appsso.eurostat.ec.e… extracted May 21st, 2020
Source 3:	SGI Estimate
Data for:	CHL

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	5.3
Minimum:	0.1
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9
Annotat.:	SGI Estimate by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Additional annotations and exceptions

Data for CHL are Missing. Imputed Value=SGI Estimate

Top group

Score

Spending on Preventive Health

New Zealand

10.0

6.41

Canada

10.0

6.21

9.9

5.24

Upper middle group

Italy

8.2

4.26

South Korea

7.4

3.82

Finland

7.3

3.75

Netherlands

6.6

3.32

Sweden

6.5

3.26

Estonia

6.4

3.23

Croatia

6.2

3.13

Poland

6.2

3.11

Slovenia

6.1

3.02

Mexico

6.0

3.01

Germany

6.0

2.96

Lower middle group

Norway

5.9

2.93

Czechia

5.8

2.89

USA

5.8

2.89

Japan

5.8

2.86

Hungary

5.4

2.64

Ireland

5.4

2.63

Bulgaria

5.3

2.59

Denmark

5.2

2.51

Chile

5.1

2.47

Iceland

5.1

2.45

Turkey

5.0

2.41

Latvia

5.0

2.40

Switzerland

4.9

2.35

Austria

4.6

2.19

Luxembourg

4.6

2.18

Lithuania

4.6

2.17

Belgium

4.6

2.16

Spain

4.5

2.11

Australia

4.2

1.93

France

4.0

1.86

Portugal

3.9

1.76

Romania

3.9

1.75

Malta

3.0

1.27

Greece

3.0

1.26

Cyprus

3.0

1.24

Bottom group

Slovakia

2.6

1.02

Israel

1.5

0.37

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