This paper has attempted to identify characteristic patterns of performance in tax-financed (TF) systems, contrasting them with systems relying more heavily on other revenue sources.

Starting in June, 1997, the Workers' Compensation Board of BC made available computerized records of all injured workers claims, from 1986 to 1996, to the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Using 'personal identifier' fields such as PHN, name, birth date, sec and postal code, we...

The impact of major social policy decisions on community health is rarely considered or analyzed. This aricle describes the association of major community and health use in relation to the distribution of monthly welfare payments.

Over the past decade, the 'pharmacoeconomics' phenomenon has incited a stream of commentaries about the economic evaluation of drugs, conflicts of interest and ways of retaining respectability for this component of health economics profession. Private coporations now finance so many aspects of...

This paper attempts to answer the following questions. Why and did North America's first public health insurance scheme develop in Saskatchewan? What were the unique features of Saskatchewan's economy, geography, history which may helped the development of public health insurance in this...

This paper discusses how in vitro fertilization provides a good example of the fact that research evidence is only part of a complexly interacting mix in policy development.

Our system of Universal public insurance for health care is by a considerable magin Canada's most successful and popular puiblic program. Our system works, and compared to most other systems works well, while the American alternative does not.

While the adjusted clinical group (ACG) system has been extensively validated in the United States, its use in other developed nations has been limited. This article examines the performance of the system in 2 Canadian provinces and accesses the extent to which ACGs can account for some-year and...

Control of health care costs is often portrayed as a struggle between external, "natural" forces pushing costs up and individuals, groups, and societies trying to resists the inevitable.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) creates new challenges for the Canadian Healthcare system arguably one of the most "socialized" systems in the world today. In particular, the WTO's enhanced trade dispute resolution powers, enforceable with sanctions, may make Canadian healthcare vulnerable to...