Problems of access to physician services have arisen in Canada at a time when physician hours of work have been undergoing important changes. This study investigates the relationship between physicians' hours of dir ect patient care and physicians' service supply using individual-level data from...

Prescription drug expenditures are one of the fastest rising components of provincial health care spending. One of the primary responses of provincial governments to rising drug expenditures has been to introduce or increase beneficiary co-payment requirements. This paper examines the evidence...

An effective solution to the problem of access to physician services in Canada must extend beyond an over-exclusive focus on the number of providers to consider the behaviour of physicians in greater depth. The amount of labour and associated services supplied by physicians depends importantly...