Today the World Health Organization released their 2008 Report. It focused a lot on the disparities of health care from country to country but also citizen to citizen within the same country. The emphasis was on Primary Care, universal care, leadership and an emphasis on preventative measures to cut worldwide health care costs. Though the report is a behemoth, at 148 pages, there is lots in there probably worth reading about. At the very least, I'd recommend reading over the summary of the report. Or take a look at the table of contents for the actual report and read up on the sections that are particularly interesting to you.
The report can be found:
http://www.who.int/whr/2008/whr08_en.pdf
The summary can be found:
http://www.who.int/whr/2008/summary.pdf
There are lots of other interesting links, including a speech by the director of the WHO, and some really cool comparisons of country's GDP per capita vs health care spending per capita (much like the TED videos we watched).
http://www.who.int/whr/2008/en/index.html
For the country comparisons, click on the link under Primary Healthcare in Action.
I'm sure there are millions of reviews of the report out there too (or at least there will be in near future).
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Hey, thanks for the post Jimmy. I hadn't realized that the report came out. Should be a fun read... after the quarter's over. haha! Regardless, it's interesting to see the WHO emphasize primary care deficiencies as a major concern in the area of global health. I had always thought that the lack of access to any BASIC care was a more endemic problem across the world than the lack of access to PRIMARY care, specifically, but I may just be sweating the small stuff, in terms of linguistics. Interesting to see, though, how challenges facing primary care differ so greatly amongst the richer and poorer nation-states.
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