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...

This discussion document estimates the contribution of the public sector, business and households in the financing of total health expenditures in Canada in 2006. It suggests a detailed methodological framework to come up with such an estimate. Total health expenditures without taking into...

Although availability of necessary equipment could play a role in wait times for MRI and CT exams in Canada, there are other dimensions to this issue. More machines do not necessarily reduce wait times. It is important to also consider other factors like the level of utilisation of the existing...

French Abstract: L’objectif de cette étude est de considérer le rôle du biogaz comme source d’énergie pouvant se substituer au charbon de bois, mais aussi comme solution aux problèmes de la déforestation, de milieux malsains et d’effets de serre. Nous avons soutenu qu’un véritable...

Public spending on health in Canada has reach $121 billion in 2008; an average annual increase of 7.4% compared to the 1998 level. For the same period, total government revenue has grown at an average annual rate of 5.2%. This fact has led some stakeholders to conclude that health spending is...

This document concentrates on the changes to the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) allocation and the most effective way to evenly distribute the CHT budget across provinces. Three main formulas were considered throughout the study: the current allocation under the Ten Year Plan to Strengthen...

Physician spending has substantially increased over the last few years in Canada to reach $27.4 billion in 2010. Total clinical payment to physicians has grown at an average annual rate of 7.6% from 2004 to 2010. The key policy question is whether or not this additional money has bought more...

Increase in medical spending is an issue in all the developed countries and particularly in Canada. However, given that medical technology is evolving rapidly, we do not know whether price or quantity/quality of services is responsible for more of this increase. The objective of this study is to...

This papers aims to determine the optimal rotation and the best alternative use of a forest stand when wood price is assumed to follow a Geometrical Brownian Motion and the externality generated by the forest capacity to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the air is adequately taken into...

Current cost-based approach in measuring health care output does not allow decomposition of health care expenditure into price and output components. In this paper we propose an episode-based direction measurement method which closely resembles the concept of output in the system of national...