Are WHO Rankings Evidenced Based? No Way.

A recent CATO briefing discussed a flawed and over-referenced report from the World Health Organization (WHO), which ranked the U.S. 37^th in the world on health care. The WHO based their rankings on an index. Yet only two factors of the five used in the index are based on health outcomes. The other 3 factors are based on inequality of outcomes.

Here is a glaring example from Glen Whitman of the flawed logic in these measurements: Suppose country A has uniformly poor health care responsiveness, and country B is 50% good and 50% excellent. Country B is obviously the better choice for health care but it would rank lower than country A on the WHO index because it has a greater inequality.

Charlie Sauer is a legislative assistant with the National Center for Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C.

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