Monitoring national levels of personal healthcare access and quality is critical to understanding where countries can improve health service delivery. Researchers used findings from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study to estimate a summary measure of healthcare access and quality, the Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index, for 195 countries from 1990 to 2015 [2]. Based on the relationship between countries’ HAQ Indices and overall socio-demographic development, researchers charted an HAQ Index “frontier,” or the highest access and quality countries achieved at different development levels. Key results for select countries are highlighted in the following country profiles, while all estimates can be found here [3].

Australia [4]

Brazil [5]

China [6]

Ethiopia [7]

Germany [8]

Indonesia [9]

Japan [10]

Kenya [11]

United Kingdom [12]

United States [13]