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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Health Index

Performance on the health-related SDG index and 40 individual health-related indicators, by location, in 2017
UK Ranking: 5

Source: GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators. “Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 392,10159 (2018): 2091-2138. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32281-5 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6227911/

Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index

Performance on the HAQ Index and 32 individual causes, by country or territory, in 2016
UK Health System Ranking: 23

Source: GBD 2016 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators. “Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 391,10136 (2018): 2236-2271. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30994-2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986687/

WHO World Health Report 2000

Health system attainment and performance in all Member States, ranked by eight measures, estimates for 1997
— Overall Health System Performance – UK Health System Ranking: 18
— Performance on Health Level – UK Health System Ranking: 24

Source: World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2000: Health Systems : Improving Performance. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2000. https://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/

More details about the SDG Health Index, HAQ Index, and World Health Report 2000 are available here.


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Page last updated June 2, 2020 by Doug McVay, Senior Policy Analyst.

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