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AUSTRALIA'S healthcare system may come in for constant criticism, but compared to most other countries, it is one of the best.

Australia came third in a list of 19 industrialised countries surveyed for their ability to provide timely and effective healthcare to its citizens.

The study by the Commonwealth Fund and published in the January/February issue of the journal Health Affairs measured developed countries' effectiveness at providing timely and effective healthcare.

The study, called Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis, was written by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

It looked at death rates in subjects younger than 75 that could have been prevented by timely and effective medical care.

While France came out on top, the US came dead last.

The researchers found that while most countries surveyed saw preventable deaths decline by an average of 16 per cent, the US had only a 4 per cent dip.

The non-profit Commonwealth Fund, which financed the study, expressed alarm at the findings.

"It is startling to see the US falling even farther behind on this crucial indicator of health system performance,'' said Commonwealth Fund senior vice president Cathy Schoen, who noted that "other countries are reducing these preventable deaths more rapidly, yet spending far less".

The 19 countries, in order of best to worst, were: France, Japan, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the US.

Some countries showed dramatic improvement in the periods studied - 1997 and 1998 and again between 2002 and 2003 - outpacing the US, which showed only slight improvement.

White the US ranked 15th of 19 between 1997-98, by 2002-03 it had fallen to last place.

"It is notable that all countries have improved substantially except the US,'' said Ellen Nolte, lead author of the study.

Had the US performed as well as any of the top three industrialised countries, there would have been 101,000 fewer deaths per year, the researchers said.
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