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Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2015 Report

Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the lengthy queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Insti-tute has—for over two decades—surveyed specialist physicians across 12 specialties and 10 provinces. This edition of Waiting Your Turn indicates that, overall, waiting […]

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An Evidence-Informed National Seniors Strategy for Canada

Given that the life expectancy of Canadians has almost doubled over the last century, our coming of age should be recognized as triumph rather than a disease. Older Canadians are now the fastest growing segment of our population with their numbers expected to double over the next two decades so that by then, one in […]

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A brief history of Alberta Health Services

May 15, 2008: Health minister Ron Liepert announces the creation of Alberta Health Services, a single, centralized health authority built on a corporate model of governance. Liepert later says caucus made the decision in one day, with dissolution of regional boards made overnight. January 2009: The province announces it has tapped Australian health policy expert […]

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California: Healthcare System‎. May 20, 2013

Frequently Asked Questions How does a single-payer system differ from the current health care system? The goal of a single-payer system is to pay for your health care in a fair and efficient way. Our health care is paid for in a complex, confusing, and inefficient way. Currently multiple public agencies and multiple private insurance […]

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Health inequality widens between richer and poorer Canadians: CIHI Report

“The health inequalities between richer and poorer Canadians are large and they’ve persisted over time in the past decade and in some cases they’ve even widened,” said Jean Harvey, director of the Canadian Population Health Initiative, a branch of CIHI, in Ottawa. “It’s a stubborn problem.” Click here to download the full PDF

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Women twice as likely to die in childbirth in U.S. than Canada: UN Report

Women are twice as likely to die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes in the United States than in Canada, a report issued Thursday from the UN and the World Bank says. But compared with other developed nations, Canada hasn’t made much progress in the past 25 years. Here are some other key takeaways about mothers’ safety around […]

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Approaches To High-Risk, Resource Intensive Cancer Surgical Care In Canada

A report from the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Cancer surgical care and patient outcomes vary widely in Canada, depending on where you live, but could be improved through a set of national standards, a new report says. The report released Thursday, also has high praise for “regionalization,” where high-risk, high-resources cancer surgery cases are grouped into […]

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Much More Than Just a Visit – CFHI Report

A Review of Visiting Policies in Select Canadian Acute Care Hospitals  November 2015 In a recent CFHI study of 114 acute-care hospitals across Canada, only 30 of the health-care institutions received top marks for having more patient-centred visiting policies. The organization would like to see all hospitals in Canada adopt policies that are more welcoming […]

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Preventing Falls: From Evidence to Improvement in Canadian Health Care

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Throw Back Thursday (TBT): Ontario braces for a grey wave: Boomer Tsunami: Ready or Not

A SPECIAL REPORT by Judy Steed: First published November 2008 It’s been called a “demographic tsunami,” the population bulge of baby boomers closing in on their senior years. Whether the mass of them spend their final years in dignity or “stacked like cordwood” in institutions depends on decisions being made now. Will we be ready? […]

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