Decentralised health care in Canada

Health inequalities in the decentralised Spanish health care system

The work of ANAEM is complemented by that undertaken within accommodation centres for asylum applicants that are run by CADA under ANAEM supervision.4 Here again, epidemiological investigations are undertaken. Monitoring procedures, like those used for type II diabetes, allow immigrants to assume personal responsibility for their own health when medical conditions are at a less advanced stage. ...

Rationing health care in Canada.

Canada has been able to develop a fairly successful system of healthcare rationing by balancing the conflicting concerns of equal access and cost efficiency, federal funding and provincial control, and public sector management and private sector provision. Financial constraints limit the kinds of services included within the notion of equal access, however, forcing healthcare providers to make ...

Shared mental health care in Canada.

Health Care In Canada : Incrementalism Under Fiscal

Driven by fiscal pressures in the 1990s, Canada’s provincial Medicare systems cut inpatient care, expanded community services, and consolidated hospitals under regional authorities in nine of ten provinces. Public confidence has been badly shaken by the transition. No province has successfully integrated services across the continuum of care. Home care and prescription drug coverage vary from p...

Reforming health care in Canada: current issues.

This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance plans of the 1960s and 1970s had the untoward effects of limiting the federal government's clout for cost control and of promoting a system centered on inpatient and medical care. Recently, several provincial commissions reported that the current governance structures and management processes ar...