This study examines the impact that private financing of prescription drugs in Canada has on equity in the utilization of publicly financed physician services. The complementary nature of prescription drugs and physician service use alongside the reliance on private finance for drugs may induce...

The equitable allocation of health care resources is a central goal in many health systems. Scholars from economics, political science, philosophy, ethics and other areas have offered many alternative conceptions of an equitable, or just, allocation of health care resources. In their seminal...

In this article we analyse the rates at which those admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) receive aggressive treatment, assess how those rates have changed over time, and ask whether there is evidence of age discrepancies. Estimates made on the basis of data from an...

In this article we analyse the rates at which those admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) receive aggressive treatment, assess how those rates have changed over time, and ask whether there is evidence of age discrepancies. Estimates made on the basis of data from an...

In this article we analyse the rates at which those admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) receive aggressive treatment, assess how those rates have changed over time, and ask whether there is evidence of age discrepancies. Estimates made on the basis of data from an...

In this article we analyse the rates at which those admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) receive aggressive treatment, assess how those rates have changed over time, and ask whether there is evidence of age discrepancies. Estimates made on the basis of data from an...

This report is one of ten provincial reports on long term care facilities for the elderly in Canada. The provincial reports are based on a nationwide survey of provincial ministries/departments of health and social services, long term care associations and university researchers. The survey was...

In this report we consider the case for using population-needs based approach to the planning and allocation of health-care resources in Ontario. In section 1 the needs-based approach is contrasted with systems of allocation used currently in Ontario. These existing systems tend to allocate...