For almost two years, there are more than 5 million pandemics, but no country in the world, including the United States, is not ready for any new epidemic. The Washington Post writes that such a statement was made by American experts in the global health index in which they appreciated the situation in 195 countries of the world.
Experts noted that because of this, new threats from the field of health care may appear in the world, even more dangerous than the current pandemic.
Scientists analyzed the ability of each country to prevent, detect and respond to new threats in 2021, as well as other factors. On average, the situation has changed little since 2019. None of the countries under consideration scored more than 75.9 points out of 100 possible.
In the first place of this ranking, the United States was due to the great potential in the field of health and science. In the same position they were in 2019. But at the same time, the authors of the article note that the states have the lowest indicator of the public confidence in the government. It is in this that experts see the main cause of high morbidity and mortality from coronavirus.
The author of the article lists the rest of the country from the top ten: Australia, Finland, Canada, Thailand, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea and Sweden.
Experts estimated those countries where the authorities applied efforts that can be distributed to other diseases, as well as transparency reigns. In their rating, they relied on publicly available data, and not on personal experience or experience of colleagues doctors.
Experts gave their recommendations: the authorities of different countries need to be embedded in the national budget for health care, international organizations need to identify countries that most need help, the private sector needs to find options for partnership with governments, and also need to create a new system. Charity in this area.
One of the proposed systems is called “7-1-7”: countries should recognize the countries for 7 days, in one day to inform the health care system and issue an effective answer for the next 7 days, writes The Washington Post.