Abstract: Health care has caused widespread concern all over the world. From the perspective of international comparison, this paper analyzes different countries' existing health care system and their respective resource allocation. At first, based on literature researches, we divide the diverse health care systems into five categories and then choose eight representative countries, either developed or developing, for detailed description. In addition, the allocation of health care resources, including health costs, human resources and fixed assets, is compared with the relevant statistics. And particularly for health costs, a comparative framework of six dimensions is put forward. The differences of health care among the various countries are discussed from two aspects, i.e. systems and resource allocation, in the hope of providing significant references for the follow-up studies.

Key words: health care, medical security, resource allocation, six-dimensional comparison framework