nternational Comparison of Health Expenditure and Outcomes
DESCRIPTION/NAME of Assignment
This artifact is from a group assignment completed in H354, Health Economics. As a team we compared health system performance across five countries Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico using OECD Health Statistics data.
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What I learned
I chose this assignment because it gave me a real look at how differently countries invest in and perform on health outcomes. The biggest takeaway was that spending more money does not always lead to better health results. The United States spends the most of any country in the comparison at 17.2% of GDP, yet it ranked below Canada, Germany, and the UK in life expectancy and infant mortality. This assignment helped me think critically about health system efficiency and how resource allocation connects to population health outcomes.
Program Competencies
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Describe the structure and functioning of health delivery, public health, and health services organizations and the importance of a population health perspective.
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Apply quality, strategic planning, management, organizational behavior, marketing, and human resource theories and tools to manage organizational resources, confront industry challenges and improve outcomes in health organizations.
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Apply data and health information technology to inform organizational performance and decision making.