Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place

[mythmonster2]

How would having less categories make it more informative?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

You can't read it as is.

EDIT: I'll do it.

 

[gangleri2001]

Uh...could you make that a bit more readable? For example by having quintiles rather than by 10s.

Like top 20%, 20% to 40%, 40% to 60%, 60 to 80%, and bottom 20%. That would be more readable and more informative.

But then you couldn't see the diferences inside a category. I hardly see why France and the USA should be in the same category.

 

[Winner]

Here's a little map I made

Spoiler :

SOURCE

Czech Rep. scoring worse than Thailand, Morocco and Cuba?

Good thing that they stopped doing this in 2000.

 

[Arakhor]

I can read it perfectly well. For instance, I can see that with only a couple of exceptions, all of Western Europe is in the top 30 most efficient health services, whereas the USA is only in the top 40. Our socialist care is clearly a Bad Thing (TM).

 

[sophie]

USA 31-40!!!

 

[Cull]

China #141-150!

 

[Winner]

Countries by infant mortality rate:

And by life expectancy at birth:

Now, it seems rather inconsistent with the WHO rating. What exactly are the WHO criteria?

 

[say1988]

In designing the framework for health system performance, WHO broke new methodological ground, employing a technique not previously used for health systems. It compares each country’s system to what the experts estimate to be the upper limit of what can be done with the level of resources available in that country. It also measures what each country’s system has accomplished in comparison with those of other countries.

WHO’s assessment system was based on five indicators: overall level of population health; health inequalities (or disparities) within the population; overall level of health system responsiveness (a combination of patient satisfaction and how well the system acts); distribution of responsiveness within the population (how well people of varying economic status find that they are served by the health system); and the distribution of the health system’s financial burden within the population (who pays the costs).

From here.

 

[GoodGame]

Without even reading, I'd guess it's be efficiency of dollars spent. I.e. life expectancy vs. healthcare money spent per person.

 

[Godwynn]

 

[choxorn]

USA 31-40!!!

China #141-150!

According to the link, USA is 37, China is 144.

Go USA! We're worse than almost every other first world country, and we're also worse than Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, UAE, Singapore, Chile, Morocco, Dominica, and Costa Rica!

North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska #1!

 

[madviking]

Government bureaucracy jobs in Virginia #1!

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Countries by infant mortality rate:

Iraq simply begs for a lot of black humor.

 

[say1988]

North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska #1!

Self employed farmers, yay!!

 

[W|M]

Considering being well...Cuba, Cuba actually has a very good healthcare system, it´s the same one used by my city!

 

[gangleri2001]

And here's another ganglerian map (the shortest denomination has been used for the countries that have multiple denominations):

And here's the complete list:

Spoiler :

4 letters
Laos
Chad
Mali
Togo
Iraq
Iran
Oman
Peru
Cuba
Fiji

5 letters
Spain
Malta
Italy
Syria
Egypt
Libya
Niger
Sudan
Ghana
Benin
Kenya
Gabon
(The) Congo (aka. Republic of the Congo (18 letters))
Yemen
Qatar
India
Nepal
China (aka. People’s Republic of China (22 letters))
Japan
Burma (aka. Myanmar (7 letters))
Chile
Haiti
Palau
Nauru
Samoa
Tonga

6 letters
France
Russia
Norway
Poland
Sweden
Monaco
Latvia
Greece
Kosovo
Serbia
Turkey
Cyprus
Israel
(The) Gambia
Guinea
Uganda
Malawi
Rwanda
Zambia
Angola
Jordan
Kuwait
Bhutan
Taiwan (aka. Republic of China (15 letters))
Brunei
Canada
Mexico
Belize
Panama
Guyana
Brazil
Tuvalu

7 letters
Germany
Andorra
Denmark
Estonia
Belgium
Ireland
Iceland
Finland
Austria
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Hungary
Romania
Albania
Croatia
Lebanon
Georgia
Armenia
Tunisia
Algeria
Morocco
Senegal
Liberia
Nigeria
Eritrea
Somalia
Burundi
Namibia
Lesotho
Comoros
Bahrain
Vietnam
Ecuador
Bolivia
Uruguay
(The) Bahamas
Jamaica
Vanuatu

8 letters
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Ethiopia
Djibouti
Tanzania
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Mongolia
Cambodia
Thailand
Malaysia
Honduras
Colombia
Suriname
Paraguay
Dominica
Barbados
Kiribati

9 letters
Lithuania
San Marino
Macedonia
Cape Verde
Swaziland
Mauritius
Singapore
Indonesia
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Argentina
East Timor (aka. Timor Leste (10 letters))
Australia

10 letters
Luxembourg
Montenegro
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Mauritania
Mozambique
Madagascar
Seychelles
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Bangladesh
North Korea
South Korea
El Salvador
Puerto Rico
Guadeloupe
Saint Lucia
New Zealand
Micronesia

11 letters
Netherlands
Switzerland
Vatican City
Sierra Leone
Burkina Faso
South Africa
Saudi Arabia
Afghanistan
Philippines

12 letters
Côte d'Ivoire
Turkmenistan
Guinea-Bissau

13 letters
Liechtenstein
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Western Sahara

Over 13 letters
Papua New Guinea (14)
Solomon Islands (14)
Marshall Islands (15)
Equatorial Guinea (16)
Dominican Republic (17)
Antigua and Barbuda (17)
Trinidad and Tobago (17)
São Tomé and Príncipe (18)
United Arab Emirates (18)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (18)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (20)
United States of America (21)
Central African Republic (22)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (28)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (28)

 

[PiMan]

No "USA" for the United States? Or "United States" for that matter?

 

[Tee Kay]

We should've went with the official UN designations. Then we'd get Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lao People's Democratic Republic and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 

[gangleri2001]

USA is an acronym.