compare_healthcare
Compare Healthcare Costs & Exposure
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Healthcare cost and financial exposure across 41 countries: out-of-pocket spend per person per year (US$), out-of-pocket as a share of all health spending, total health spend per capita (PPP international $), government funding share, physicians per 1,000 and dentists per 10,000. Figures are MEASURED from World Bank and WHO Global Health Observatory series, never derived from a price index: scaling healthcare by a country's general price level overstates costs abroad by 1.2x-5.4x, because health prices do not track the price level (the US is an outlier and several countries deliberately price healthcare below their own economies). Share and burden are separate facts and both are returned - the US pays only ~11% out of pocket, a low share, but the highest absolute amount. Dental is reported as ACCESS (dentist density), not price: no free citable source publishes procedure prices. National averages, not a quote for any individual's care. Not medical, insurance or financial advice.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| sort | string | no | Metric to rank by. 'outOfPocket' = out-of-pocket spend per person per year (default, the figure a person actually pays); 'spend' = total health spend per capita; 'exposure' = out-of-pocket as a share of health spending; 'doctors' = physicians per 1,000 (ranked best-first); 'dentists' = dentists per 10,000 (best-first). |
| country | string | no | Optional ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (case-insensitive). Echoes that country's row and its rank under the active sort. |
| maxOutOfPocketPct | number | no | Optional filter: keep only countries where households pay at most this percentage of health spending directly. |
| minPhysiciansPer1000 | number | no | Optional filter: keep only countries with at least this many physicians per 1,000 people. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [],
"properties": {
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Metric to rank by. 'outOfPocket' = out-of-pocket spend per person per year (default, the figure a person actually pays); 'spend' = total health spend per capita; 'exposure' = out-of-pocket as a share of health spending; 'doctors' = physicians per 1,000 (ranked best-first); 'dentists' = dentists per 10,000 (best-first).",
"enum": [
"outOfPocket",
"spend",
"exposure",
"doctors",
"dentists"
],
"default": "outOfPocket"
},
"country": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (case-insensitive). Echoes that country's row and its rank under the active sort."
},
"maxOutOfPocketPct": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Optional filter: keep only countries where households pay at most this percentage of health spending directly."
},
"minPhysiciansPer1000": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Optional filter: keep only countries with at least this many physicians per 1,000 people."
}
}
}