Resumen de The US Health Disadvantage Relative to Other High-Income CountriesFindings From a National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Report

Steven H. Woolf, Laudan Y. Aron

• The United States spends more on health care than does any other country, but its health outcomes are generally worse than those of other wealthy nations. People in the United States experience higher rates of disease and injury and die earlier than people in other high-income countries. Although this health disadvantage has been increasing for decades, its scale is only now becoming more apparent.