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Author : Aleck Samuel Ostry
Publisher : Cha Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical care
ISBN : CORNELL:31924104780139
Author : Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada,Roy J. Romanow
Publisher : Saskatoon : Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : UIUC:30112059382330
In April 2001, the Prime Minister established the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. Its mandate was to review medicare, engage Canadians in a national dialogue on its future, and make recommendations to enhance the system's quality and sustainability. The 47 recommendations in this report outline actions that must be taken in 10 critical areas, starting by renewing the foundations of medicare and considering Canada's role in improving health around the world.
Author : A. Scott Carson,Jeffrey Dixon,Kim Richard Nossal
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781553394402
While Canadians are proud of their healthcare system, the reality is that it is fragmented and disorganized. Instead of a pan-Canadian system, it is a "system of systems" - thirteen provincial and territorial systems and a federal system. As a result, Canadian healthcare has not only become one of the costliest in the world, but is falling well behind many developed countries in terms of quality. Canadians increasingly realize that their healthcare system is no longer fiscally sustainable, yet change remains elusive. The standard claim is that Canada's multijurisdictional approach makes system-wide reform nearly impossible. Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians disputes this reasoning, making the case for a comprehensive, system-wide, made-in-Canada healthcare strategy. It looks at the mechanics of change and suggests ways in which the various participants in the system - governments, healthcare professionals, the private sector, and patients - can work collaboratively to transform a second-rate system. Addressing critical issues of health human resources, electronic health records, integrated care, and pharmacare, Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians shows how a system-wide strategic approach to this crucial policy area can make a difference in Canada’s healthcare system in the future.
Author : A. Scott Carson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781553395041
Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehensive and coherent whole. Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy is a collection of ten policy research essays by leading Canadian and international scholars who address three important questions. First, if Canada had a unifying strategy, how would the country measure its success and monitor its performance? Second, who are the agents of change to bring about a Canadian system-wide strategy? Third, how can the jurisdictional realities of Canada’s political system be managed to bring about strategic reform? The final section in the volume explores ways to overcome the barriers and impediments that preoccupy Canadians’ concerns about healthcare. A companion volume to Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians, the contributors to Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy turn to the critical importance of how necessary healthcare changes can be best implemented.
Author : Gerard W. Boychuk,Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : OCLC:52064095
Author : Gregory P. Marchildon,Sara Allin,Sherry Merkur
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : 9781487508081
This book provides insight into how the Canadian health care system is financed and organized, how it has evolved over time, and how well it performs relative to peer countries.
Author : Gail L. Siler-Wells,Canadian Public Health Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Health planning
ISBN : PSU:000017190169
Author : Howard A. Palley,Marie-Pascale Pomey,O. B. Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1604978155
Canada has a complex health delivery system which is a conglomeration of 13 public plans--10 provincial and three territorial as well as a number of federally administered plans serving special populations such as Aboriginals and Veterans--all providing full coverage for most hospital and physician services as well as partial coverage for many services that vary among plans. The importance of this study is that it examines how the public/private sector relationship in health care delivery--particularly that of the for-profit sector--has developed both historically and in recent years, in three subnational provincial jurisdictions within a federal system. The case study provinces are Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta. The study examines both similarities and differences in this development. These provinces are highly distinct in their political culture and political history affecting health care delivery. Ontario and Quebec are Canada's most populous provinces and Alberta is an increasingly populous prairie state. Alberta is unique in its long-time governance of the Progressive Conservative party and its predecessor the Social Credit Party. Ontario has had a more variable political history with periods of Progressive Conservative, New Democratic Party and Liberal leadership and in recent years Quebec governance has shifted between the Parti Qu becois and the Liberal Party. In this study, one dimension that the authors examine are political dispositions to act regarding public/private initiatives in health care delivery and how this affects health care delivery in these provinces. Provincial medical and hospital plans are constrained by the Canada Health Act of 1984. For necessary medical and hospital services, the provinces and territories must adhere to the five principles of the Act in order to receive federal funding. However for other extended health care and health care-related services, there are federal contributions that are not constrained by these principles--although subject to reporting obligations. Another factor providing some flexibility in provincial Medicare plans is that necessary hospital and medical services are not enumerated in the Canada Health Act. This has allowed some "delisting" of services which is discussed in the case studies. In the provincial case studies, the authors examine how the federal/provincial dynamic in the delivery of health care services has worked out in the three provinces, with respect to similarities and differences regarding the involvement of the for-profit sector both within and outside the respective Medicare systems. They also examine how the fiscal setting has affected both political and economic sustainability pressures with respect to inclusion of private commercial initiatives in these three provincial settings. The authors note that these initiatives occur both within and external to Canadian provincial Medicare systems and that there is a need to see that such initiatives are held publicly accountability to meet equity and access goals. The study utilizes government documents, press reports and personal interviews to draw a picture of health delivery developments within the Canadian federal context. This study adds to the comparative health policy literature by applying a comparative approach to subnational provincial cases. It is also noteworthy to note that globally, many nations' health insurance plans incorporate a mixed public and private health delivery system, albeit that the mixes of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations will vary with respect to the ideological, political, cultural and historical characteristics of various nations. This is an important book for collections in Canadian studies, political science, and public health.
Author : Nuala P. Kenny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000050602957
Author : Michael Rachlis,Carol Kushner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0006380611
... a must read for those wanting a better understanding about what's behind those scary 'Health care in crisis' headlines. -- Winnipeg Free Press...a wealth of thought-provoking detail, presented in a clear, no-nonsense style. -- Dr. June Engel, Quill & QuireUser fees are not the answer. We don't need to spend more money to save our publicly funded health care system, argue the authors of the bestselling Strong Medicine, a revolutionary prescription for health care reform.Second Opinion, Rachlis's an Kushner's previous #1 bestseller, rocked Canada's health community; Strong Medicine is equally timely, as health care consumers realize that their system is now on the critical list.
Author : Colleen Fuller,Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0921586590
Caring For Profit traces how Canada's $77 billion a year health care industry is turning away from its original mandate of providing the best possible medical care to Canadians, and how multinational capital is forcing its way into our non'profit health care system. In Caring For Profit, Colleen Fuller traces alliances that were struck between private insurers and the medical profession during the 1950s and 1960s to defeat "socialized medicine". These alliances survived the establishment of medicare in Canada in 1968, and have been strengthened by new forces emerging in an era of globalization. Instead of a health care system focused on providing the highest quality of care to the greatest number of Canadians, the system is increasingly dominated by financial giants more concerned with consolidations, mergers, acquisitions, and higher profit margins. Caring for Profit is a "who's who" of key people and corporations making money in Canada's health care sector ? and a portrait of the strategies and alliances that threaten to replace the principles of medicare with the dictates of the stock market.
Author : Duncan Gordon Sinclair,Mark Rochon,Peggy Leatt,Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0886451973
This book tells the story of how the Health Services Restructuring Commission developed a vision of an effective health services system for the twenty-first century and attempted to fill a policy and leadership void. (Midwest).
Author : Gregory P. Marchildon,Renée Torgerson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773588844
An essential guide to understanding the organization, management, funding, and delivery of health services to Canada's newest jurisdiction.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Health Professions Education Summit
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309133197
The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.
Author : Stephen Pinney MD
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483452784
"Canadians are passionate about their healthcare system--and their hockey. While the Canadian medical system is a source of pride―based on ideals of universal coverage, public funding, and high-quality medical care--this treasured healthcare system is failing due to soaring costs, the challenge of an aging population, and poor care delivery. It needs a reality check ... Dr. Stephen Pinney pulls the curtain back on the existing Canadian healthcare system and exposes its fundamental flaws--flaws that are the inevitable result of the system's history and evolution. Hockey, Canada's game, offers a potential principle-based solution to this national dilemma. The book proposes a path forward that would allow Canadians to redesign their healthcare system in a way that matches their ideals. That redesign, Dr. Pinney proposes, should reflect ideas most Canadians know and accept: the principles inherent in a Stanley Cup--winning hockey team."--Provided by publisher.
