Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care: Canada's Provinces in International Perspective (The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442609753 ISBN 13: 9781442609754

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2014

Synopsis

Through Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena. The book moves beyond previous debates, agreeing that while efficiencies and better value for money may yet be found, more fundamental reforms to the management and delivery of health services are essential prerequisites to bending the cost curve in the long run. While there is considerable controversy over direction and details of change, there also remains the challenge of getting agreement on the values or principles that would guide the reshaping of the policies, the structures, and the regulatory environment of health care in Canada.

Leading experts from around the world representing a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds come together to organize and define the problems faced by policy-makers. Case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Nordic countries, and industrialized Asian

countries such as Taiwan offer useful reform experiences for provincial governments in Canada. Finally, common Canadian cost factors, such as pharmaceuticals and technology, and paying the health workforce, are explored.

This book is the first volume in The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at

the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.

About this title

About the Author:

Gregory P. Marchildon is a professor and Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
Livio Di Matteo is Professor of Economics at Lakehead University. His articles have appeared in many academic international health journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, Health Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, and Health Economics, Policy and Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1442609753
• ISBN 13: 9781442609754
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 479
• Editor: Marchildon Gregory P., Di Matteo Livio