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Backgrounder: Making Sense of the U.S. Health Care System: A …

The U.S. health care system is not a universally accessible system – it is a publicly and privately-funded patchwork of fragmented systems and programs. … See more

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Backgrounder: The impact of poverty on health – Evidence Network

WEBPrepared for EvidenceNetwork.ca by Carolyn Shimmin. More wealth, better health . Over three million Canadians struggle to make ends meet ― and what may surprise many, is …

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Canada and U.S. both ration healthcare – they just do it differently

WEBYes, we do ration healthcare in America. It’s just that those affected the most are those who have the least income. In America, we have become oddly blasé about income …

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Closing the 17-year gap between scientific evidence and patient care

WEBThe 17-year gap between research and practice traditionally refers to the time required to adopt new practices. Unfortunately, new research shows that it may take even longer to …

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Canada’s housing crisis is a public health emergency

WEBBeyond a crisis of housing and poverty, homelessness is a public health emergency. The longer people are homeless, the worse their health becomes. A recent report from …

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Social assistance programs in Canada falling behind

WEBThere are several possible explanations. First, the amount of income support may be insufficient. Income support has declined since the mid-1990s, when deep cuts to …

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‘Burden of disease’: What it means and why it matters

WEBBurden of disease measures have their roots in the field of infectious diseases public health. The earliest measures were developed to track and identify causes of death …

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How Canada fails people with mental illnesses – Evidence Network

WEBThere is overwhelming evidence that access to mental healthcare across Canada is poor. Only one in five people with depression get appropriate treatment. And shockingly, only …

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How to fix Canada’s health care system – Evidence Network

WEBVirtual networks are informal, self-organizing systems consisting of primary care physicians, specialists, interdisciplinary health providers and the hospitals where their patients are …

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Five challenges for bending the healthcare cost curve in Canada

WEBIndeed, improving the quality and quantity of evidence-based decision-making is perhaps the greatest challenge in systematically devising policies for bending the cost curve. 5. …

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Women’s work across every aspect of healthcare is largely invisible

WEBFrom 1997 to 2016, the health sector employment increased approximately 69 per cent, almost twice that of the Canadian labour force. The proportion of women working in that …

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Four things we can do to improve healthcare in Canada

WEB4. Integrate primary care into the rest of the health system. Canada often ranks near the bottom of a dozen Commonwealth countries in patients’ experiences of an integrated …

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Comparing U.S., Canadian health care systems – Evidence Network

WEBOne thing Americans and Canadians can agree on is that we don’t want each other’s health care systems. In truth, most Americans don’t know how Canada’s system works and …

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Why Economic Inequality Matters to the Health and Well-Being of …

WEBEconomic inequality results from certain segments of society experiencing persistent disadvantage and lack of opportunity. It can affect everything from the health of …

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Nurse Practitioners are the innovative solution to Canada’s health …

WEBVery. Decades of rigorous evidence shows that Nurse Practitioners improve access to personalized, cost-effective, high-quality health care that reduces wait times and costs …

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The UK health care system – Evidence Network

WEBOverview. The UK health care system is now really comprised of four separate health care systems: National Health Service (England), Health, Social Services and Public Safety …

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Federal Transfer Payments and how they affect healthcare funding …

WEBThe Canada Social Transfer (CST) is cash transferred on an equal per capita basis. In 2017-18, CST cash levels will grow three percent and are expected to continue to grow …

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Five things most people get wrong about Canada’s healthcare …

WEBBy Kathleen O’Grady and Noralou Roos. Voir en Français. How our health system should be reformed, and in what measures, is nothing short of a national pastime in Canada. …

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How to create an affordable prescription drug plan

WEBNew Brunswick has opportunity to reduce pharmaceutical drug prices dramatically with a single payer system. A version of this commentary appeared in the Huffington Post, the …

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What Canada can learn from Australia on health care

WEBIn other words, more private care is associated with more public waiting. Canadians can learn from Australia’s health care policies — both in terms of what to adapt and what to …

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