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Health Systems in Transition: Canada
The health care system in Canada is much-discussed in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to its highly decentralized administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components that make up health care in Canada today including the federal, provincial, intergovernmental and regional dynamics within the public system. Gregory P. Marchildon's study offers a statistical and visual description of the many facets of Canadian health care financing, administration, and service delivery, along with relevant comparisons to five other countries' systems.
This second edition includes a major update on health data and institutions, a new appendix of federal laws concerning select provincial and territorial Medicare legislation, and, for the first time, a comprehensive and searchable index. It also provides a more complete assessment of the Canadian health system based on financial protection, efficiency, equity, user experience, quality of care, and health outcomes.
Balancing careful assessment, summary, and illustration, Health Systems in Transition: Canada is a thorough and illuminating look at one of the nation's most complex public policies and associated institutions.
This second edition includes a major update on health data and institutions, a new appendix of federal laws concerning select provincial and territorial Medicare legislation, and, for the first time, a comprehensive and searchable index. It also provides a more complete assessment of the Canadian health system based on financial protection, efficiency, equity, user experience, quality of care, and health outcomes.
Balancing careful assessment, summary, and illustration, Health Systems in Transition: Canada is a thorough and illuminating look at one of the nation's most complex public policies and associated institutions.
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208 pages, Paperback
First published February 11, 2006
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January 17, 2022
Canada’s UHC isn’t very universal in first-dollar coverage for Canadians. It’s also very decentralized, with about 100 agencies I recognized by name, and another 100 I didn’t. Pretty comprehensive and organized book. I read the third edition, which came out in April 2021. I suspect it possibly has some dated ideas of how policy will be shaped by covid-19.
November 14, 2019
Informative. Learned a lot. Thanks!
October 17, 2013
Interesting read, but some parts were not explained deeply enough while others were repeated unneccessarily
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