Welcome to the Healthcare Cost around the World Webpage!!!

This is the resoruce for all people who are planning on moving out of the continent and are worried about what the cost of healthcare would be wherever they relocate to. On this site you will find basic continent information as well as some health statistic information.

Only the developed, industrialized countries perhaps 40 of the world's 200 countries have established health care systems. Most of the nations on the planet are too poor and too disorganized to provide any kind of mass medical care. The basic rule in such countries is that the rich get medical care; the poor stay sick or die.

In rural regions of Africa, India, China and South America, hundreds of millions of people go their whole lives without ever seeing a doctor. They may have access, though, to a village healer using home-brewed remedies that may or not be effective against disease.

In the poor world, patients can sometimes scratch together enough money to pay a doctor bill otherwise, they pay in potatoes or goat's milk or child care or whatever else they may have to give. If they have nothing, they don't get medical care.

These are some of the many things that you must think about when relocating to different countries.

© Katrina Barber
Western Michigan University
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Last Updated On: August 18, 2011