This month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a comprehensive health data report, comparing health care statistics across OECD countries. Their website and study can be found here and an excel file with a sampling of their data is also available. With the recent flurry around the Obama administration’s health care proposals, it feels like a good time to look at some of the more interesting data sets to me:
- Healthcare Spending as a % of GDP
- Doctor Consultations, Number per Capita
- Hospital Beds per 1000 Population (more…)