Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 16-18 (July 2011) Health Care Spending, Social Policy, Public Health, and Life Expectancy: What Cancer Outcomes Can Tell Us Beyond Treatment Efficacy  James W.F. Catto  European Urology  Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 16-18 (July 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.04.004 Copyright © 2011 Terms and Conditions

Fig. 1 The relationship between urologic cancer mortality and public health measures. Testicular cancer mortality is (a) inversely correlated with the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) spent on health care and (b) directly correlated with the neonatal mortality rate. (c) BCa mortality is related to smoking prevalence (shown in males). (d) Smoking prevalence is strongly associated with life expectancy throughout Europe. Mortality data are from Bosetti et al [1], public health data are from the World Health Organization [2], and smoking prevalence is from the British Heart Foundation [11]. ASM=age standardized mortality. European Urology 2011 60, 16-18DOI: (10.1016/j.eururo.2011.04.004) Copyright © 2011 Terms and Conditions