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The Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care in Canada : the Romanow Papers, Volume 1.

Presenting divergent diagnoses and policy prescriptions, the papers collectively highlight the many factors that governments and health care sector managers must confront to keep the Canadian health care system viable in the 21st century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forest, Pierre-Gerlier
Otros Autores: Marchildon, Gregory, McIntosh, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction: The Many Worlds of Fiscal Sustainability
  • Part One: Cost Factors
  • 1 Technological Change as a Cost-Driver in Health Care
  • 2 How an Ageing Population Will Affect Health Care
  • 3 Medical Malpractice, the Common Law, and Health-Care Reform
  • 4 Section 7 of the Charter and Health-Care Spending
  • Part Two: The Financing and Delivery of Health Care
  • 5 Financing Health Care: Options, Consequences, and Objectives
  • 6 Determining the Extent of Public Financing of Programs and Services
  • 7 Delivering Health Care: Public, Not-for-Profit, or Private?
  • Part Three: Federal-Provincial Fiscal Dynamics
  • 8 Increasing Provincial Revenues for Health Care
  • 9 The Changing Political and Economic Environment of Health Care
  • 10 Paying to Play? Government Financing and Agenda Setting for Health Care
  • Part Four: International Trade Regimes
  • 11 International Trade Agreements and Canadian Health Care
  • 12 The Effects of International Trade Agreements and Options for Upcoming Negotiations.