Development of a richer measure of health outcomes incorporating the impacts of income inequality, ethnic diversity, and ICT development on health

Table 1 The calculated health outcome index and indicator variables for 2014

Ranking	Country	HO Index	LEB1	IMR	PHSB
1	Sweden	0.920882	17.7	2.4	4
2	Switzerland	0.906609	16.7	3.5	3.8
3	Iceland	0.901149	17.1	1.6	6.3
4	Spain	0.851465	16.7	3.6	8.3
5	Norway	0.850066	17.8	2.2	6.9
6	Ireland	0.847285	17.9	3.1	4
7	Canada	0.846275	17.9	4.4	3.1
8	Finland	0.830299	18.7	2	6.4
9	Netherlands	0.824627	18.2	3.3	5.4
10	Luxembourg	0.811795	17.7	1.6	8.3
11	France	0.806762	17.2	3.6	8.4
12	Italy	0.772004	16.8	3	12
13	Austria	0.764056	18.4	3	8.9
14	Germany	0.759641	18.8	3.2	8
15	Slovenia	0.744356	18.8	2.2	11
16	Belgium	0.736288	18.6	3.4	9.2
17	Denmark	0.728947	19.2	3	7.4
18	UK	0.723706	18.6	3.7	9
19	Greece	0.697221	18.5	3.7	10.8
20	USA	0.682182	21.2	5.7	2.8
21	Israel	0.648615	17.8	3.3	15.5
22	Korea	0.643678	17.8	3	15.9
23	Czech Republic	0.617804	21.1	2.9	11.6
24	Portugal	0.55644	18.8	3	18.3
25	Poland	0.465052	22.3	4.5	13.7
26	Estonia	0.436804	22.8	2.5	16.5
27	Slovak Republic	0.399524	23.1	6.1	12.7
28	Hungary	0.335858	24.1	5.3	15.9
29	Turkey	0.285885	22	12.3	11.8
30	Latvia	0.268991	25.7	7.2	17.1

Note: These 30 countries were selected due to availability of continuous time-series data

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