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recession. The looming question for Canadian public health care services is "How will public administrations in Canada sustain … their health care expenditures during the next few years, given the pressure from debt recovery and the new federal payment … transfer for health care?” To examine these issues, variations from 1989 to 2009 in Canadian public administration health care …
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An abundance of literature links socio-economic status to health and health care in Canada and other countries. Recent … anecdotal evidence indicates that Canadians believe their access to health care is diminishing over time. This study provides a … brief description of utilization patterns in health-care services provided under public health insurance (physicians …
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We develop a model to analyze health care nancing arrangements and under alternative public sector rationing rules …. Health care is demanded by individuals varying in income and severity of illness. There is a limited supply of health care …-based rationing and random rationing. Insurers (both public and private) must bid to obtain the necessary health care resources to …
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This paper examines how the use of ‘authorized-generics’ (AGs) influences Canadian prescription drug prices. An authorized-generic is the actual brand name drug product, manufactured by the brand firm, but sold as a generic by a licensee or subsidiary of the brand, competing with independent...
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absenteeism from work. Second, we examine stress, burnout, and physical occupational health problems (in particular … 1,396 nurses employed at three large teaching hospitals in Southern Ontario (Hamilton Health Sciences, Kingston General … Hospital, and St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto) using the New Health Care Worker Questionnaire. Results indicate that although …
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-sized Ontario city participated in a survey on their work and health. By the fall of 2001, 320 of these respondents had left the … as health reasons, including work-related stress, as reasons for leaving. Less than one-third remained employed in the … home care field, one-third worked in other health care workplaces and one-third were no longer working in health care …
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Comparative health studies consistently find that Canadians on average are healthier than Americans. Comparing health … two countries. Canada’s universal health care insurance system contrasts with the mixed system of the United States …: universal care for seniors, private health care insurance for many, and no or intermittent coverage for others. These countries …
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absenteeism from work. Second, we examine stress, burnout, and physical occupational health problems (in particular … 1,396 nurses employed at three large teaching hospitals in Southern Ontario (Hamilton Health Sciences, Kingston General … Hospital, and St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto) using the New Health Care Worker Questionnaire. Results indicate that although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635284
-sized Ontario city participated in a survey on their work and health. By the fall of 2001, 320 of these respondents had left the … as health reasons, including work-related stress, as reasons for leaving. Less than one-third remained employed in the … home care field, one-third worked in other health care workplaces and one-third were no longer working in health care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635321
health behaviors and health service use related to cancer incidence and diagnosis can be accounted for by demographic, socio …-01 and 2004-05 Canadian Community Health Surveys and the 2001 Aboriginal People’s Survey. Methods – Multivariate Logistic … regression analysis is applied to 1) a set of health behaviors including smoking, binge drinking and obesity, and 2) a set of …
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