In 2023, Singapore dominated the ranking of the world's health and health systems, followed by Japan and South Korea. The health index score is calculated by evaluating various indicators that assess the health of the population, and access to the services required to sustain good health, including health outcomes, health systems, sickness and risk factors, and mortality rates. The health and health system index score of the top ten countries with the best healthcare system in the world ranged between 82 and 86.9, measured on a scale of zero to 100.

Global Health Security Index  Numerous health and health system indexes have been developed to assess various attributes and aspects of a nation's healthcare system. One such measure is the Global Health Security (GHS) index. This index evaluates the ability of 195 nations to identify, assess, and mitigate biological hazards in addition to political and socioeconomic concerns, the quality of their healthcare systems, and their compliance with international finance and standards. In 2021, the United States was ranked at the top of the GHS index, but due to multiple reasons, the U.S. government failed to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The GHS Index evaluates capability and identifies preparation gaps; nevertheless, it cannot predict a nation's resource allocation in case of a public health emergency.

Universal Health Coverage Index  Another health index that is used globally by the members of the United Nations (UN) is the universal health care (UHC) service coverage index. The UHC index monitors the country's progress related to the sustainable developmental goal (SDG) number three. The UHC service coverage index tracks 14 indicators related to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, service capacity, and access to care. The main target of universal health coverage is to ensure that no one is denied access to essential medical services due to financial hardships. In 2021, the UHC index scores ranged from as low as 21 to a high score of 91 across 194 countries. 

In 2023, the health care system in Finland ranked first with a care index score of ****, followed by Belgium and Japan. Care systems index score is measured using multiple indicators from various public databases, it evaluates the capacity of a health system to treat and cure diseases and illnesses, once it is detected in the population This statistic shows the care systems ranking of countries worldwide in 2023, by their index score.

According to a 2021 health care systems ranking among selected high-income countries, the United States came last in the overall ranking of its health care system performance. The overall ranking was based on five performance categories, including access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes. For the category health care outcomes, which takes into account health outcomes most likely to be responsive to health care, the U.S. was ranked last, while Australia took first place. Outcomes such as infant mortality or preventable mortality were included. This statistic present the health care outcomes rankings of the United States' health care system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021.

The average for 2020 based on 36 countries was 4.44 hospital beds. The highest value was in South Korea: 12.65 hospital beds and the lowest value was in Mexico: 0.99 hospital beds. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2023, Norway ranked first with a health index score of 83, followed by Iceland and Sweden. The health index score is calculated by evaluating various indicators that assess the health of the population, and access to the services required to sustain good health, including health outcomes, health systems, sickness and risk factors, and mortality rates. The statistic shows the health and health systems ranking of European countries in 2023, by their health index score.

The average for 2020 based on 36 countries was 356986 hospital beds. The highest value was in China: 7131200 hospital beds and the lowest value was in Iceland: 1039 hospital beds. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Despite the fact that remote services were successfully implemented in most European social and health systems before 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented development of health and social care services provided in this form. This paper compares the readiness of patients to use the digital solutions in healthcare systems implemented in EU countries, in response to the current pandemic situation. In the study, technological, health insurance, and demographic variables were selected on the basis of substantive criteria. Next, the linear ordering method was applied to make a ranking of the analyzed countries according to the level of patients' readiness to use digital healthcare services. The main findings show that the Netherlands and Ireland are characterized by the highest level of patients' readiness for using remote healthcare services. On the other hand, Romania and Bulgaria are among the countries with the lowest readiness. The study also made it possible to group European countries according to the level of patients' preparedness.

AdventHealth Orlando in Florida stands as the largest hospital in the United States, boasting an impressive 2,247 beds as of August 2024. This expansive facility exemplifies the scale of modern healthcare infrastructure, with Jackson Memorial Hospital, also in Florida, following as the second-largest. Evolving landscape of U.S. hospitals Despite the decline in the total number of hospitals since 1980, the healthcare sector continues to grow in other ways. U.S. hospitals now employ about 7.5 million workers and generate a gross output of around 1,161 billion U.S. dollars. The Hospital Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tennessee, leads the pack as the largest health system in the country, operating 222 hospitals as of February 2025. This reflects a trend towards consolidation and the rise of for-profit hospital chains, which gained prominence in the 1990s. Specialization and emergency care While bed count is one measure of hospital size, institutions also distinguish themselves through specialization and emergency care capabilities. For instance, the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center performed 22,287 organ transplants between January 1988 and March 2025, making it the leading transplant center in the nation. In terms of emergency care, Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas recorded the highest number of emergency department visits in 2022, with 226,178 patients seeking urgent care.

In 2023, there were 5,177 hospital organizations operating in Russia, reflecting a slight increase from the previous year. This marks a decrease of 1,131 hospitals compared to 2010, highlighting a continuous decline from the peak of 6,343 hospitals in 2011. The number of hospitals has fluctuated over the years, with the lowest count recorded in 2021 at 5,072. Hospital bed density in Russia The density of hospital beds in Russia, measured as the number of beds per 10,000 population, saw a decrease in recent years and reached 77.5 in 2023. In fact, Russia has one of the highest hospital bed densities worldwide, ranking above other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Russian health care in a global context In 2024, Russia ranked 14th among the countries with the best medical infrastructure and healthcare professionals (HCPs) with an index score exceeding that of Germany and Canada. Moreover, Russia ranked 14th in terms of medicine affordability and availability.

With over ***** medical centers, Brazil was the Latin American country with the highest number of hospitals in 2024, among the countries depicted. Mexico ranked second, with ***** hospitals. In 2022, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein was the leading hospital by quality in the South American country. Healthcare spending With an estimated ** percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) being spent on health, Cuba was the nation with the highest health expenditure share in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020. Ranking second in this ranking along with Argentina, Brazil’s government spent more than ** percent of its annual health expenditure on hospital and outpatient care. Meanwhile, in Chile, government spending on healthcare was, on average, about ***** U.S. dollars per person in 2021, which was more than the combined health expenditure from government and out-of-pocket spending in Mexico. Leading medical technology Including products such as diagnostic imaging, implants, and vaccines, nanomedicine has by far been Latin America’s most valuable medical technology, generating an estimated ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Furthermore, the revenue of nanomedicine in the region is expected to reach ***** billion U.S. dollars by 2027, representing an increase of more than ** percent over a span of five years.More information by Global Health Intelligence on hospital infrastructure in various Latin American countries can be found here.

South Korea Number of Hospital was up 3.5% in 2019, compared to the previous year.

The average for 2021 based on 181 countries was 7.21 percent. The highest value was in Afghanistan: 21.83 percent and the lowest value was in Brunei: 2.2 percent. The indicator is available from 2000 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

IntroductionIn 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world, and many national health systems faced serious challenges. To improve future public health responses, it's necessary to evaluate the performance of each country's health system.MethodsWe developed a resilience evaluation system for national health systems based on their responses to COVID-19 using four resilience dimensions: government governance and prevention, health financing, health service provision, and health workers. We determined the weight of each index by combining the three-scale and entropy-weight methods. Then, based on data from 2020, we used the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to rank the health system resilience of 60 countries, and then used hierarchical clustering to classify countries into groups based on their resilience level. Finally, we analyzed the causes of differences among countries in their resilience based on the four resilience dimensions.ResultsSwitzerland, Japan, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Canada, New Zealand, Finland, the United States, and the United Kingdom had the highest health system resilience in 2020. Eritrea, Nigeria, Libya, Tanzania, Burundi, Mozambique, Republic of the Niger, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea had the lowest resilience.DiscussionGovernment governance and prevention of COVID-19 will greatly affect a country's success in fighting future epidemics, which will depend on a government's emergency preparedness, stringency (a measure of the number and rigor of the measures taken), and testing capability. Given the lack of vaccines or specific drug treatments during the early stages of the 2020 epidemic, social distancing and wearing masks were the main defenses against COVID-19. Cuts in health financing had direct and difficult to reverse effects on health systems. In terms of health service provision, the number of hospitals and intensive care unit beds played a key role in COVID-19 clinical care. Resilient health systems were able to cope more effectively with the impact of COVID-19, provide stronger protection for citizens, and mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. Our evaluation based on data from 60 countries around the world showed that increasing health system resilience will improve responses to future public health emergencies.

Dominance analysis rankings service coverage indicators based as predictors of UHC SCI score, stratified by World Bank country ranking.

Covid-19 has challenged health systems around the world and increased the global competition for medical professionals. This article investigates if the pandemic and its management became an important push factor influencing the migration intentions of medical students and junior doctors and how this factor compared in importance to others. A mixed methods study–a survey and in-depth interviews–was conducted with final-year students at public medical universities in Poland, a country already suffering from a significant emigration of medical staff. The research demonstrated that the difficulties of the Polish healthcare system in dealing with Covid-19 were a factor that slightly positively influenced the emigration intentions of medical students and junior doctors. Nevertheless, the pandemic’s influence was not decisive. Factors such as the socio-political situation in Poland (.440**) (including hate speech directed at doctors by politicians and patients), the participants’ family situation (.397**), healthcare system organization (.376**), or the opportunity of pursuing a planned career path (.368**) proved more influential. Salary is still important but did not turn out to be among the decisive factors. This allows us to conclude that migration decisions of medical students have a very well-established basis that does not fundamentally change even under the influence of such dramatic situations as the pandemic. This conclusion has important implications for healthcare management and the ongoing discussion in migration studies on the evolution of push and pull factors in place and time.

BackgroundAs new interventions to reduce childhood mortality are identified, careful consideration must be given to identifying populations that could benefit most from them. Promising reductions in childhood mortality reported in a large cluster randomized trial of mass drug administration (MDA) of azithromycin (AZM) prompted the development of visually compelling, easy-to-use tools that synthesize country-specific data on factors that would influence both potential AZM benefit and MDA implementation success.Methodology/Principal FindingsWe assessed the opportunity to reduce mortality and the feasibility of implementing such a program, creating Opportunity and Feasibility Indices, respectively. Countries with high childhood mortality were included. A Country Ranking Index combined key variables from the previous two Indices and applied a scoring system to identify high-priority countries. We compared four scenarios with varying weights given to each variable.Twenty-five countries met inclusion criteria. We created easily visualized tools to display the results of the Opportunity and Feasibility Indices. The Opportunity Index revealed substantial variation in the opportunity for an MDA of AZM program to reduce mortality, even among countries with high overall childhood mortality. The Feasibility Index demonstrated that implementing such a program would be most challenging in the countries that could see greatest benefit. Based on the Country Ranking Index, Equatorial Guinea would benefit the most from the MZA of AZM in three of the four scenarios we tested.Conclusions/SignificanceThese visually accessible tools can be adapted or refined to include other metrics deemed important by stakeholders, and provide a quantitative approach to prioritization for intervention implementation. The need to explicitly state metrics and their weighting encourages thoughtful and transparent decision making. The objective and data-driven approach promoted by the three Indices may foster more efficient use of resources.

Multilevel logistic regression model for determinants of dental care attendance, medical care attendance and hospitalization.

According to a survey, mental health was ranked as the biggest health care concern facing people in Colombia among selected issues, with around 54 percent of respondents considering it the main sanitary problem as of August 2024. Moreover, stress and drug abuse ranked second and third among the leading health concerns that year, as indicated by 40 and 36 percent of interviewees, respectively. As of 2023, Colombia was among the countries with the highest share of people considering mental health one of the biggest health problems in their country within a selection of 34 nations.

Identified Government Efforts towards Improving the Nigerian Healthcare Systems.

Multilevel logistic regression analysis for forgoing dental care due to cost and unavailability in wave 8.