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Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money?
OBJECTIVE: To determine if Canadians are getting value for money in providing health services to our northern residents. METHOD: Secondary analyses of data from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Institute of Health Information and territorial government agencies on health status, health expenditures a...
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2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008132/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27585027 |
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author | Young, T. Kue Chatwood, Susan Marchildon, Gregory P. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To determine if Canadians are getting value for money in providing health services to our northern residents. METHOD: Secondary analyses of data from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Institute of Health Information and territorial government agencies on health status, health expenditures and health system performance indicators. RESULTS: Per capita health expenditures in Canada's northern territories are double that of Canada as a whole and are among the highest in the world. The North lags behind the rest of the country in preventable mortality, hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions and other performance indicators. DISCUSSION: The higher health expenditure in the North is to be expected from its unique geography and demography. If the North is not performing as well as Canada, it is not due to lack of money, and policy makers should be concerned about whether healthcare can be as good as it could be. |
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spelling | pubmed-50081322016-09-02 Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money? Young, T. Kue Chatwood, Susan Marchildon, Gregory P. Healthc Policy Research Paper OBJECTIVE: To determine if Canadians are getting value for money in providing health services to our northern residents. METHOD: Secondary analyses of data from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Institute of Health Information and territorial government agencies on health status, health expenditures and health system performance indicators. RESULTS: Per capita health expenditures in Canada's northern territories are double that of Canada as a whole and are among the highest in the world. The North lags behind the rest of the country in preventable mortality, hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions and other performance indicators. DISCUSSION: The higher health expenditure in the North is to be expected from its unique geography and demography. If the North is not performing as well as Canada, it is not due to lack of money, and policy makers should be concerned about whether healthcare can be as good as it could be. Longwoods Publishing 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5008132/ /pubmed/27585027 Text en Copyright © 2016 Longwoods Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License, which permits rights to copy and redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is given proper attribution. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Young, T. Kue Chatwood, Susan Marchildon, Gregory P. Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money? |
title | Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money? |
title_full | Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money? |
title_fullStr | Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money? |
title_full_unstemmed | Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money? |
title_short | Healthcare in Canada's North: Are We Getting Value for Money? |
title_sort | healthcare in canada's north: are we getting value for money? |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008132/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27585027 |
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