Psychiatry in the USA: an overview

The USA has the world’s largest economy and the highest per capita spending on healthcare, but it lags behind other countries on a number of key health measures. It ranks 23rd in healthy life expectancy and 32nd in infant mortality (World Health Organization, 2009). In 2000, the World Health Organiz...

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Autores principales: Bernstein, Carol A., Hershfield, Bruce, Cohen, Deborah C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010
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Country Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508054
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spelling pubmed-67349902019-09-10 Psychiatry in the USA: an overview Bernstein, Carol A. Hershfield, Bruce Cohen, Deborah C. Int Psychiatry Country Profile The USA has the world’s largest economy and the highest per capita spending on healthcare, but it lags behind other countries on a number of key health measures. It ranks 23rd in healthy life expectancy and 32nd in infant mortality (World Health Organization, 2009). In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked the US healthcare system as 1st in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations in the study). The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734990/ /pubmed/31508054 Text en © 2010 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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