Vazquez-alvarez, RosaliaRosaliaVazquez-alvarez2023-04-132023-04-132000-12-01https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/73790Every year the World Health Organization (WHO) publishes an annual report that summarizes the status of public health for all UN member countries. Such report analysis aspects such as life-expectancies, health spending and the relation between spending and effectiveness within the health system in each of the member countries. This articles provides a reivew of a new time series indicator that aims at evaluating the relative performace of all health systems by clasifying these in a single ranking that takes into account all private and public aspect of the system. The ranking implies a probabilistic classification that remains highly related to measures of inequality. The article evaluates the effectiveness of the new health related Time Series measure as a way to evaluate the existing health systems of UN member countries.enHealth systemsHealth SpendingWHO Health Financing systemnewspaper article