Question: Where does The U.K. rank in provision of healthcare according to the WHO in the year 2000?
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Orthotists are healthcare professionals that specialize in the provision of orthoses.
In the United States, orthotists work by prescription from a licensed healthcare provider who has consult and directive authority- often physicians, some times physician assistants or nurse practitioners.
Physical therapists, in spite of their professional doctorate, are not legally authorized to prescribe orthoses in the U.S.
In the U.K., orthotists may accept open referrals for orthotic assessment without a specific prescription from doctors or other healthcare professionals.
Aside from orthotists, many other healthcare professionals may be involved in the provision of orthoses. 
Healthcare in Singapore is mainly under the responsibility of the Singapore Government's Ministry of Health.
Singapore generally has an efficient and widespread system of healthcare.
Singapore was ranked 6th in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems in the year 2000.
Bloomberg ranked Singapore’s healthcare system the 2nd most efficient in the world after Hong Kong.
Singapore has a non-modified universal healthcare system where the government ensures affordability of healthcare within the public health system, largely through a system of compulsory savings, subsidies, and price controls.
Singapore's system uses a combination of compulsory savings from payroll deductions to provide subsidies within a nationalized health insurance plan known as Medisave.
Within Medisave, each citizen accumulates funds that are individually tracked, and such funds can be pooled within and across an entire extended family.
The vast majority of Singapore citizens have substantial savings in this scheme.
One of three levels of subsidy is chosen by the patient at the time of the healthcare episode.
A key principle of Singapore's national health scheme is that no medical service is provided free of charge, regardless of the level of subsidy, even within the public healthcare system.
This mechanism is intended to reduce the overutilisation of healthcare services, a phenomenon often seen in fully subsidised universal health insurance systems.
Out-of-pocket charges vary considerably for each service and level of subsidy.
At the highest level of subsidy, although each out-of-pocket expense is typically small, costs can accumulate and become substantial for patients and families.
At the lowest level, the subsidy is in effect nonexistent, and patients are treated like private patients, even within the public system.
The increasingly large private sector provides care to those who are privately insured, foreign patients, or public patients who are able to afford what often amount to very large out-of-pocket payments above the levels provided by government subsidies.
Approximately 70-80% of Singaporeans obtain their medical care within the public health system.
Overall government spending on healthcare amounts to only 3-4% of annual GDP, partly because government expenditure on healthcare in the private system is extremely low.
Singapore currently has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world (equalled only by Iceland) and among the highest life expectancies from birth, according to the World Health Organization.
Singapore has "one of the most successful healthcare systems in the world, in terms of both efficiency in financing and the results achieved in community health outcomes," according to an analysis by global consulting firm Towers Watson.
The government regularly adjusts policies to actively regulate "the supply and prices of healthcare services in the country" in an attempt to keep costs in check.
However, for the most part the government does not directly regulate the costs of private medical care.
These costs are largely subject to market forces, and vary enormously within the private sector, depending on the medical specialty and service provided.
The specific features of the Singapore healthcare system are unique, and have been described as a "very difficult system to replicate in many other countries."
Many Singaporeans also have supplemental private health insurance (often provided by employers) for services not covered by the government's programs. 
The most common mode of healthcare delivery is through personal, face-to-face contact between a healthcare provider and a beneficiary (patient).
There is, however, an increasing trend towards the provision of healthcare in the absence of a personal contact: this is known as 'in absentia health care'. 
Inquiry, The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering public policy issues, innovative concepts, and original research in healthcare provision. 
’s poverty cycle.
In their article titled “The Economic and Social Burden of Malaria,” Pia Malaney and Jeffrey Sachs present an argument for the prominent social theory regarding the intimate relationship between disease prevalence and poverty.
They state that where malaria prospers most, human societies have prospered least.
In Poor Economics authors Banerjee and Duflo explain how poor healthcare contributes to the poverty trap.
That is, inadequacies of Malawi’s healthcare lead to an increased prevalence of disease and other health issues, which, in turn, results in increased poverty incidence.
A comparison of income in malarious and non-malarious countries indicates that average GDP (adjusted to give purchasing power parity (PPP)) in malarious countries in 1995 was US$1,526, compared with US$8,268 in countries without intensive malaria — more than a fivefold difference.
According to Jaimeson, effective intervention at the level of healthcare provision will have the greatest rate of return in the form of improved health.