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Global Health Care Issues

Global Health Care Issues is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1950. 27.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the determinants of health care expenditure, focusing on the impact of an ageing population, longevity, and medical innovation. It investigates the relationship between health care spending, economic growth, and public health outcomes, with a particular emphasis on the implications for chronic disease management and government health expenditures.

  • Health Care Expenditure
  • Ageing Population
  • Longevity
  • Health Outcomes
  • Economic Growth
  • Public Health Spending
  • Life Expectancy
  • Medical Innovation
  • Government Health Expenditures
  • Chronic Disease
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
12k
per year above
Top-10% rate
27.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+30%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Global Health Care Issues research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 781 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 781 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 586 works
  4. 4 India 467 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 325 works
  6. 6 Poland 321 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 289 works
  8. 8 Australia 261 works
  9. 9 Italy 249 works
  10. 10 Germany 248 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 28.8%China: 15.8%United Kingdom: 11.8%India: 9.4%6 others listed: 34.2%29%largest
United States1,427 · 28.8%China781 · 15.8%United Kingdom586 · 11.8%India467 · 9.4%6 others listed1,692 · 34.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Global Health Care Issues research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Peking University publishes the most Global Health Care Issues research, followed by Harvard University and Sapienza University of Rome.

Who are the leading researchers in Global Health Care Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Health Care Issues include Christopher J L Murray, Simon I Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 13k citations
  2. 2 Simon I Hay United States 12k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 12k citations
  4. 4 Lalit Dandona United States 9.3k citations
  5. 5 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 8.2k citations
  6. 6 Sadaf G Sepanlou Iran 8k citations
  7. 7 Ferrán Catalá-López Spain 7.7k citations
  8. 8 Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán Colombia 7.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Global Health Care Issues research done?

The largest centres of Global Health Care Issues research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Warsaw (Poland) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London and Abuja.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 218 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 193 works
  3. 3 Warsaw Poland 91 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C. United States 85 works
  5. 5 New York United States 82 works
  6. 6 Moscow Russia 79 works
  7. 7 Cambridge United States 77 works
  8. 8 Tehran Iran 77 works
  9. 9 Istanbul Türkiye 75 works
  10. 10 Paris France 72 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London20.6 works15×
  2. AbujaNG · 22.2 works9.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Health Care Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Health Care Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, International Institute for Population Sciences and London School of Economics and Political Science score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 34.81%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: 21, 45.4%International Institute for Population Sciences: 25, 34.2%London School of Economics and Political Science: 27, 30.9%Zhongnan University of Economics and Law: 8, 53.8%Tribhuvan University: 28, 10.2%Erasmus University Rotterdam: 19, 34.9%City, University of London: 9, 36.2%University of York: 16, 38.4%Australian National University: 27, 29.8%Harvard University: 35, 34.3%Zhongnan University …London School of Hyg…International Instit…London School of Eco…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 71.745.4%17.2×21 -5.8%
2 International Institute for Population SciencesIndia 64.034.2%90.7×25 +34.3%
3 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 62.830.9%13.8×27 +1.0%
4 Zhongnan University of Economics and LawChina 60.153.8%10.1×8 +5.6%
5 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 57.710.2%8.1×28 +274.7%
6 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 56.434.9%8.2×19 +0.5%
7 City, University of LondonUnited Kingdom 55.236.2%10.8×9 +41.8%
8 University of YorkUnited Kingdom 53.738.4%6.4×16 +41.3%
9 Australian National UniversityAustralia 53.129.8%6.8×27 -9.4%
10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 52.434.3%3.5×35 +21.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Global Health Care Issues research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 30% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Global Health Care Issues.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.