Health Care Finances Around The World

Select a foreign country whose health care system you would like to learn more about.

  • Conduct a literature search (CINAHL/MEDLINE Complete/Library Discovery) and retrieve at least 2 articles which discuss the healthcare system in your selected country. Look specifically for information related to the cost of health care, access, and quality.
  • Conduct a Google search to locate at least one reliable source of information related to the health care system in your selected country.  Look specifically for information related to the cost of health care, access, and quality.
  • Based on what you learned from your research post an original response to forum questions.

*NOTE:  consider doing a key word search using ‘healthcare system’ and the country’s name. 

  1. Choose a country whose health care system is of interest to you:
    1. Provide an overview of what you learned about the health care system in your selected country.  This overview is to include the name of the country, type of health care system (i.e. National Health system, federal government, commercial etc.) and a discussion of health care costs, access, quality, and choice.
    2. Compare and contrast the healthcare system in your selected country with the U.S, healthcare system in terms of cost, access, and quality.  Based on what you learned about the health care system in your selected country, do you believe the U.S. has the best health care system in the world?  Explain.