Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better (UTP Insights)

Deber, Raisa

ISBN 10: 1487521499 / ISBN 13: 9781487521493

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2017

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pp. 208 Illustrated edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better (UTP Insights)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487521499
• ISBN 13: 9781487521493
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.

An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions that help us understand and diagnose Canada’s health care system and to clarify which proposed changes are likely to improve it - and which are not. This book provides background information to clarify such concepts as: determinants of health; how health systems are organized and financed (including international comparisons); health economics; health ethics; and roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including government, providers, and patients. It then addresses some key issues, including equity, efficiency, access and wait times, quality improvement and patient safety, and coverage and payment models. Using analysis rather than advocacy, Deber provides a toolkit to help understand health care and health policy.

About the Author

Raisa B. Deber is a professor emeritus at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto and has received many awards for her contributions to health policy.