International and Comparative Health Policy: Opportunities and Lessons for the U.S
Countries around the world take different approaches to addressing health and health care for their citizens. While developing countries have much different needs than industrialized countries, comparing nations that fall into like categories can provide valuable insight into how to improve health care for a populace. In 2010, policy analysts at the Commonwealth Fund began a comparative analysis of the United States health care with other high-income countries. Their 4th iteration of this study was published in 2021, entitled Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly – Health care in the U.S. compared to other high- income countries. Five domains were examined in their study: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes.
Case Assignment
After reviewing the background materials and conducting your own research, answer each of the following:
Explain each of the five domains.
Review the United States’ performance for each of these domains.
What four characteristics do other, better-performing countries have that distinguish them from the United States?
What lessons can the United States learn from other countries? Be sure that you are using more than just the Commonwealth Fund report to answer this question.
Assignment Expectations
Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to justify/support your analysis.
Limit your response to a maximum of 5 pages.
Support your paper with a minimum of 3 reliable sources.
International and Comparative Health Policy: Opportunities and Lessons for the U.S
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International and Comparative Health Policy: Opportunities and Lessons for the U.S
The United States is the largest economy in the world and the most prominent member of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). However, the country ranks lowly in health and healthcare compared to other smaller economies. According to the 4th iteration of the Commonwealth Fund’s study on a comparative analysis of the United States health care with other high-income countries, the United States ranked 11th in four out of the five domains (access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes) and second in one domain (care process). This paper analyzes the country’s health care across the five domains, explains why other countries perform better, and draws lessons for the American healthcare system.
Domains
The comparative study by the Commonwealth Fund outlines the five dimensions of care. The 4th iteration offers a brief description of each dimension: access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, healthcare outcomes, and care process (Schneider et al., 2021). This description uses the information contained in this study.
Access to Care
This dimension measures