Time to reconceptualise health systems - BE or AE

[GoodTaste]

Can you see from the following context whether it is British English or American English? Three of the authors are from Switzerland, meaning English is not their first language, one from USA, two others from Chile and Thailand, respectively.

Only from the title "reconceptualise", it hints it is BE because it is BE spelling (AE spells it as reconceptualize. But one word alone is not sufficient to come to the conclusion.

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Time to reconceptualise health systems

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to expose tremendous vulnerabilities in every country's health system. It also highlights deficiencies in existing conceptualisations of health systems that overlook health security and health promotion. The global spread of COVID-19 has focused attention on roles of health systems in managing health emergencies. At the same time, more than 70% of deaths are now caused by non-communicable diseases. Investing in both health security and health promotion is acute and urgent. Considering the goals of health security and health promotion separately, however, frames policy decisions as making investments in one or the other, which is a false dichotomy obscuring the interconnected and central role of health systems in addressing both goals and achieving universal health coverage.1, 2

Source: The Lancet

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

The only "tell" is the S/Z difference that you pointed out. That's enough to put the whole article decidedly to the east of the Atlantic.

However, that doesn't mean that the Swiss writers prefer British English. It only means that the editors do.

 

[GoesStation]

The Lancet is a British publication which adheres to British English standards. That said, there's nothing in the quoted passage that doesn't work in American English.

 

[Tdol]

The WHO uses BrE too. Publications can adhere to one variant. As a website, we are free to allow variants to co-exist.