IN recent months, the public has been bombarded with news that Malaysia’s public healthcare system is in “critical condition” as Covid-19 admissions swamp hospitals. Meanwhile, social media is flooded with images of the dire situation, including pictures of Covid-19 patients being attended to on the floor at a major hospital that has run out of beds. Against this backdrop, one cannot help but wonder whether the country has put enough financial resources into the public healthcare system, especially for this long-drawn-out pandemic.
The health and wellbeing of a person are to some extent, determined by the level of healthcare in the place he or she resides. When a country has a good standard of healthcare, the citizens will enjoy good medical services and thus live healthy lives.
Today, I have compiled a list of the top 10
countries with the best healthcare in 2021. Let us get this useful knowledge, and see what we can learn from these countries.
First off, there are many ways or criteria used to rate the level of health care in a particular country. They may include the life expectancy, mortality rate, heart disease & cancer survival rate, and successful birth rate. Others may take into account the healthcare facilities, equipment, healthcare professionals, or preventive care. They are actually so many criteria used, but I don’t want to bore you with the details in all of them, I did the research for you. The most widely accepted method is the Health Care Index. The Health Care Index is an estimation