Preventable Deaths for selected countries, 1997-1998 and 2002-2003, issued 2008

http://www.allcountries.org/ranks/preventable_deaths_country_ranks_1997-1998_2002-2003_2008.html
Source: "Measuring The Health Of Nations: Updating An Earlier Analysis", Ellen Nolte and C. Martin McKee, Health Affairs, 27, no. 1 (2008): 58-71

This ranking table was produced by Photius Coutsoukis, based on research supported by The Commonwealth Fund and published in the January/February 2008 issue of Health Affairs, Bethesda, MD, USA.

This study compared trends in deaths considered amenable to health care before age seventy-five between 1997�98 and 2002�03 in the United States and in eighteen other industrialized countries.

Such deaths account, on average, for 23 percent of total mortality under age seventy-five among males and 32 percent among females.

The decline in amenable mortality in all countries averaged 16 percent over this period. The United States was an outlier, with a decline of only 4 percent. If the United States could reduce amenable mortality to the average rate achieved in the three top-performing countries, there would have been 101,000 fewer deaths per year by the end of the study period.