Putting Together The Best Healthcare System - The Medical Futurist

If we are looking for one common thing in healthcare systems around the world, it’s that nobody is truly satisfied with their own. The level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction of course varies widely between countries and is closely related to the economic performance and possibilities available for the given country in the past centuries/decades. But as we will see, with having focus and working for the right goals, it is possible to fully transform a country and its healthcare in just a few decades.

Can we, dreaming freely, come up with the perfect system? There are so many good examples all over the world after all, related to certain sub-segments. Let’s imagine what healthcare would look like if we could combine the best practices.

This is my take on the super-system.

[tatianarahbany]

In Lebanon, across our tiny country there are 220 Primary Healthcare Centers that offer "free" services to rural areas and to refugees who would otherwise have no access to tertiary care. Anyway, these Primary healthcare centers typically have a pediatrician, obstetrician, family doctor, vaccine administration, small lab for routine analyses, etc.

Some of these centers are run by the Ministry of public health / funded by the government, while the majority of the centers are run by many different NGOs. and this works of everyone: the people get quick and affordable care, the NGOs achieve their missions, and their donors pay for it (probably to achieve their own agendas).

The ministry of public health keeps an eye on the quality of care in these centers.

[madelinemeyer]

I shared this with my Global Health class. This is a fantastic review of healthcare systems around the world. Thank you for all of the great work that you do.

[estuardo]

The US should have way better outcomes if you look at both the total amount, amount per person, and economy of scales yet most European countries with similar economies and purchasing power parities get way more for what they pay.