Trouble in the ranks: how the WHO unfairly evaluates national healthcare systems

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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The WHO's rankings of national health systems leave much to be desired

The World Health Organization's health systems rankings influence health reforms all over the world. The rankings are a supposedly impartial guide to the relative performance of global health systems, but this new study shows them to be statistically dubious, misleading and ideologically biased towards taxpayer-funded systems.

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