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Healthcare access and quality (HAQ) Index
May 25 , 2018
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- India ranked 145th among 195 countries in terms of Healthcare access and quality (HAQ) index in the year 2016, behind its neighbors like China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.
- Goa and Kerala have highest HAQ index scores in 2016, each exceeding 60 points, whereas Assam and Uttar Pradesh have lowest, each below 40.
- The index was released as part of Global Burden of Disease study released by Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and best-known peer-reviewed general medical journal.
- The study used the index to measure quality and accessibility of healthcare, based on 32 causes of death which should be preventable with effective medical care.
- For the first time, it also analyzed healthcare access and quality between regions within seven countries: Brazil, China, India, England, Japan, Mexico, and the US.
- The Top five countries with highest levels of healthcare access and quality in 2016 are Iceland (1st) followed by Norway (2nd), Netherlands (3rd), Luxembourg (4th), and Finland and Australia (5th).
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