The World Health Report 2000: Can Health Care Systems Be Compared Using a Single Measure of Performance?
American Journal of Public HealthPublished 1 January 2002Open access
Vicente Navarro
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The World Health Organization's World Health Report 2000, Health Systems: Improving Performance, which ranked countries according to an overall single indicator of the performance of their health care systems, created a worldwide debate and recently started in the United States.
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