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Health System Rankings: The Bias and Pitfalls of the World Health Organization Survey

Friday, June 25, 2010

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.


http://www.policynetwork.net/sites/default/files/trouble_in_the_ranks.pdf
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