The top 20 countries with global medical capabilities are mainly concentrated in Europe.
Iceland, which scored the highest in the HAQ index, reached the highest 100 points in the HAQ index scores for 17 diseases including neonatal abnormalities and chronic kidney disease.
Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Australia, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and Andorra are among the top 10. These countries scored higher on a wider range of diseases, including vaccine-preventable diseases, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and diseases that require complex case management such as epilepsy and diabetes.
It can be seen that most of these countries with higher scores on medical capabilities correspond to higher per capita income levels and lower population numbers or densities.
For example, countries such as Australia and Canada are characterized by large areas and sparsely populated areas, while pocket countries such as Andorra and Luxembourg have less populations and territories than some megacities.
Although the overall scores of European countries are quite high, we can also see a clear line-with Germany and Italy as the boundary, the overall scores of Western European countries are above 90 points, while the scores of Eastern European countries are mainly distributed in 64- Between 80.
The gap between East and West Europe is not particularly large. Iceland, the world's number one, and Central African Republic at the bottom of the ranking, had a score difference of 78.5. This difference was 76.4 in 1990—that is, over time, the difference between the highest and lowest levels The gap has even widened slightly.
