2017年职称英语卫生B小抄牛津同义词典版.doc

Studies Show US Spending Doesn’t Get Best Health The United States may spend twice as much on health care as other countries but it is hot getting results to match according to studies released on Tuesday. But in the study of five wealthy countries，published in the joumal Health Affairs,researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system． Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University’s school of public health and cofleagues came up with a list of 21 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries～Australia，Canada，Britain，New Zealand and the United States． “None of the five countries is consistently the best or the worst on all 21 indicators．”Anderson said during a telephone briefing for reporters． “If you are looking for the place to get me best care，there isn’t a single place．Every country has at least one indicator where it scores the best of the five countries and each country has at least one indicator where it scores the worst of the five countries．” But，he said，the United States is not getting value for money．“The United States should be particularly concerned about these results，given that we spend twice as much on health care as any other country．So spending more doesn’t necessarily result in better outcomes．’’ Anderson’s group of international health experts sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund spent five years working on the study，getting the latest possible data from the five countries on areas such as breast cancer and leukemia survival，suicide rates，death rates from asthma,vaccination rates and cancer screening． 研究表明美国在医疗卫生方面的花销没有使它成为最好的 根据星期二发布的研究结果，美国在卫生保健方面的花费是其他富裕国家的两倍，但并设有得到相应的结果。 在《医疗事件》杂志上发表的对五个富有国家的研究中，研究者们发现没有哪个国家有明显的最坏或最好的医疗体系。 约翰?霍普金斯大学的公共卫生学院的Gerard Arderson及其同事制定出一个21个医疗领域的名单，他们将横向地比较五个国家——澳大利亚、加拿大、英国、新西兰和美国。 安德森在对记者的电话简报中说：“在这所有的2l项指标里，这五个国家中没有一个始终保持是最好的或最坏的。” “如果你正在寻找一个能够得到最好的医疗的地方，没有这个地方。每个国家至少有一个指标是排在第一位的，也至少有一个指标排在最后。” 但是，他说美国的钱花得不值。“鉴于我们比别的国家多花一倍的钱，美国应该尤其关心这些结果。花的钱多并不一定就会有好的结果。” 由联邦基金资助的An