International profiles of health care systems

International Profiles of Health Care Systems: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States has been published by the Commonwealth Fund.

Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organisation, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations.  Summary tables compare overall results on such factors as health care spending, hospital utilisation, patient safety, disease prevention and public views.