Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

by Raisa Deber

Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada's health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.

An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions that help us understand and diagnose Canada's health care system and to clarify which proposed changes are likely to improve it - and which are not. This book provides background information to clarify such concepts as: determinants of health; how health systems are organized and financed (including international comparisons); health economics; health ethics; and roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including government, providers, and patients. It then addresses some key issues, including equity, efficiency, access and wait times, quality improvement and patient safety, and coverage and payment models. Using analysis rather than advocacy, Deber provides a toolkit to help understand health care and health policy.

Genres: Nonfiction

204 pages, Paperback

Published December 14, 2017

Reviews

[Claire J]

Very economics heavy and quite dense, but some good food for thought.

[Willem Brandt]

More about economics of healthcare. Didn’t offer many solutions to problems and basically said there is an abundance of solutions but lack of action in terms of solving problems in Canadian healthcare.

[Lidia Lily]

The title gives it away.
Enjoyable, important perspective, but it's a book that feels strange to give a star rating to.

[Abi]

Biased bc this is my prof, but a really good read for anyone wanting an intro to improving the Canadian healthcare system.