Few studies have dealt with the growth of hospital costs by medical condition. In Canada, most existing studies address the level of costs for certain illnesses in a given year; they have not tackled changes in hospital costs by disease. This document on acute care costs by medical condition...

Even though the nursing professional category (registered nurses [RNs] and licensed practical nurses) made up about one-third of the Canadian health professionals, no study exists about their wage bill, the composition and growth rate of this wage bill. This paper attempts to fill this gap by...

The long-term increase in international health spending sparked concerns about sustainability of health care systems but also the impact of such spending and the value for money from health spending. The period since 1975 has witnessed an increase in per capita health spending in Canada along...