HEALTHIEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD



(World Healthcare Access and Quality Index)

Health of the people of a country is determined by various contributing factors prevalent in the country. They include atmospheric pollution, quality of water, quality of food, infrastructure available in the country, medical facilities available, entertainment and sports facilities at reach, behaviour of fellow beings and many such factors. Generally in a world level classification, people of the developed countries are found healthiest. People of developing countries come next and the inhabitants of the underdeveloped countries are found the least in the health categories.

According to Bloomberg Global Health Index 2019 the top healthiest countries in the world are:
(Name of the country with rank and score)

1. Spain 92.75
2. Italy 91.59
3. Iceland 91.44
4. Japan 91.38
5. Switzerland 90.93
6. Sweden 90.24

In another survey of the year 2021, the ranking and the score of countries are given below.

1. USA 75.9
2. Australia 71.1
3. Finland 70.9
4. Canada 69.8
5. Thailand 68.2
66. India 42.8

We feel humble to see our country is placed at low rank in health index of the people. Can we not take some urgent steps to rate us at least above 30. In fact what we are lacking to achieve this? To start with, let us add this in school syllabus from class 4 to 12.

Let us sideline politics and gods for the time being from our priorities and concentrate on the betterment of the people.

K V George 

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