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Colour-coded countries map based on health care type

Map is inaccurate Red Gabriel (talk) 20:49, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, a lot of countries in green don’t even have universal healthcare. we should replace it with a more accurate one. Sirui JIN (talk) 03:12, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Table from New York State Department of Health

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Starting year of universal health care.^[1] Links are "Healthcare in COUNTRY"
Country	Year
Australia	1975
Austria	1967
Bahrain	1957
Belgium	1945
Brunei	1958
Canada	1966
Cyprus	1980
Denmark	1973
Finland	1972
France	1974
Germany	1941
Greece	1983
Hong Kong	1993
Iceland	1990
Ireland	1977
Israel	1995
Italy	1978
Japan	1938
Kuwait	1950
Luxembourg	1973
Netherlands	1966
New Zealand	1938
Norway	1912
Portugal	1979
Singapore	1993
Slovenia	1972
South Korea	1988
Spain	1986
Sweden	1955
Switzerland	1994
United Arab Emirates	1971
United Kingdom	1948

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^ Foreign Countries with Universal Health Care. By New York State Department of Health.

--Timeshifter (talk) 19:35, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why does the universal healthcare map repeat the same options multiple times?

The first map shown in this article repeats the options "Countries with universal health care" and "Countries without universal healthcare" with two different colors. CerealContainer (talk) 14:37, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand that either. Perhaps the map should just be deleted? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:58, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because someone long ago made a crazy and incorrect map which nobody knows how to/wants to fix and update, and some other people have decided it shouldn't be deleted. The details are on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Universal_Healthcare_by_Country.svg Ornilnas (talk) 13:37, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Universal Health Coverage vs Care

Why is this page titled "universal health care"? The WHO uses the term "Universal Health Coverage", which better describes the concept, since what is universal is coverage of health services, not the provision of health services. I hesitate to change it since I'm not a wikipedia editor, but I am a health systems person and would be happy to edit to be more technically accurate, if needed. 71.163.76.178 (talk) 13:52, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.who.int/health-topics/universal-health-coverage — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.76.178 (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[NY.gov-1] Foreign Countries with Universal Health Care. By New York State Department of Health.

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