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akuma587 on 29 August 2008
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senseinobaka said:
akuma587 said:
senseinobaka said:

that report is more than 10 years old. and doesnt show what datapoints they are grading their assesment on.

also, we need to have a VGchartz Political Convention and nominate Rocketpig as our offical candidate. LOL

Then how about you show us some actual information to validate your claims or invalidate our claims?  Just saying something doesn't make it true.

I bet any study you would look at now would say that the U.S. is even LOWER on that list than it is now.

 

I do not gave access to any research done recently. I was just commenting that this paticular report is 1)outdated and 2)vague on details.

If I read a published research paper I expect to be able to see how the study was done, what the primary data points were, the control, the end points, and the statistical methodology, etc etc. Without that the report means nothing.

 

Well, you are on the internet, so obviously you have access to information.  The study was done in 2000, and the degree of effort it requires to do this study is very large, so they aren't done that often.  Show me a comparable study with the same depth and I will be glad to agree with you that this one is outdated.

If you would follow the links I gave you would find this:

http://www.photius.com/rankings/who_world_health_ranks.html

WHO’s assessment system was based on five indicators: overall level of population health; health inequalities (or disparities) within the population; overall level of health system responsiveness (a combination of patient satisfaction and how well the system acts); distribution of responsiveness within the population (how well people of varying economic status find that they are served by the health system); and the distribution of the health system’s financial burden within the population (who pays the costs).

 



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