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Medical Health Policy

Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?

Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics

edited by Raisa Deber & Gail Thompson

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1992
Category
Health Policy, Health Care Delivery, Hospital Administration & Care, Public Health, General, Canadian, Home Care, Essays, Health Care Issues
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442638167
    Publish Date
    Dec 1992
    List Price
    $53.00

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Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its ability to continue. It is time to explore ways to reorient and restructure the health care system and the services it provides.

 

At the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics, contributors of international reputation addressed these concerns. Their papers, collected in this volume, consider a wide range of fundamental issues related to health care policies and structures. They discuss new developments in health care delivery, assess implications of such new policies as home care and health promotion, and propose concrete alternatives for restructuring the present system to sustain universal medicine.

About the authors

Raisa B. Deber is a professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

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Gail G. Thompson is a professor in the Department of Health Administration, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

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