GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

The Quality of Death Index for selected countries

Countries are ranked best to worst
in the quality of end-oflife care services.

See notes and definitions below the table.

Notes and Definitions:

The ”Quality of Death” Index ranks countries according to their provision of end-of-life care.

The Index scores countries across four categories—Basic End-of-Life Healthcare Environment, Availability of End-of-Life Care, Cost of End-of-Life Care and Quality of End-of-Life Care, comprising 24 individual indicators.

The indicators fall into three broad categories:

Quantitative indicators: Eleven of the Index’s 24 indicators are based on quantitative data—for example, life expectancy and healthcare spending as % of GDP.

Qualitative indicators: Ten of the indicators are qualitative assessments of countries’ end-of-life care standards, for example “Public awareness of end-of-life care”, which is assessed on a scale of 1-5 where 1=little or no awareness and 5=high awareness.

Status indicators: Three of the indicators describe whether something is or is not the case, for example, “Existence of a government-led national palliative care strategy”, for which the available answers are Yes, No or In Progress.