A report published by the Central Bureau of Statistics reveals that Israel has the 5th highest life expectancy among OECD countries. Higher than the OECD average of 79.5 by 2 years, Israel’s average life expectancy stands at 81.6 years. As is the case in most countries, in Israel too, women tend to outlive men, by an average of 3.8 years.
Medical tourism, where patients travel overseas in order to undergo various medical procedures, has been a rapidly growing trend over the past decade throughout the globe. The accelerated globalization of both health care and tourism has shed light on new possibilities for patients from developed countries in search of quality healthcare outside their homelands.
A recent report, published in August of 2012 by the Bloomberg news agency, has ranked Israel as the 6th healthiest country in the world. Using a system of comparison between health score and health risk score in countries with a population of over 1 million, the famous news agency has ranked the accumulated health rating of over 200 countries worldwide.
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