A country-level comparison of access to quality surgical and non-surgical healthcare from 1990-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) index, developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, uses estimates of amenable mortality to quantify health system performance over time. While much is known about general health system performance globally, few studies have portrayed the performance of surgical systems. In order to quantify access to quality surgical care, evaluate changes over time, and link these changes to health care investments, surgical and non-surgical Health Access and Quality sub-indices were developed.

Design

We categorized 32 amenable mortality causes as either surgical or non-surgical conditions. Using principal components analysis and scaled amenable mortality rates, we constructed a surgical and non-surgical Health Access and

SUBMITTER: Wurdeman T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7608906 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature