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Format:
Paperback
160 pp.
6" x 9"

ISBN-13:
9780199003389

Copyright Year:
2015

Imprint: OUP Canada

Health Care in Canada

Antonia Maioni

Series : Issues in Canada

Health care expert Antonia Maioni condenses years of research into engaging accounts of key issues, including the financing of health care, the division of responsibilities between provinces and the federal government, and the federal government, and the founding tenets of Canada's health care system. She tells a fascinating account, weaving in explorations of Canada's political history, Medicare in the United States, and comparative examples from European systems.

Readership : Students of political science, policy studies in Canada, and those learning about medicine and medical practice in Canada will find this up-to-date resource on health care in Canada essential reading.

Introduction: Why Health Care is so Important to Canadians
1. The History of Health Care in Canada
2. A Portrait of Health Care in Canada
3. The Facts about Health Care Spending
4. Why No National Insurance in the United States?
5. Comparing Canada and Europe
6. Provincial Snapshots
7. The Double-Edged Sword of Health Care

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Antonia Maioni is Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. She is currently serving as president of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Special Features

One of the main issues of the new millennium. Health care - with its complicated tangle of problems and tribulations - is on everyone's minds. Here are the facts, clearly presented by an expert with a proven ability to give concise and uncluttered accounts of complex issues. No other book provides such a comprehensive and opinion-free consolidation of the major topics in Canada.
Canadian scope. Each country has a unique history and politics feeding into its organization of health care funding and delivery. In addition, Canada has specific demographics and geography that have fed into our distinct network of systems. Maioni looks specifically to Canada, with international comparisons where relevant.
Astute and insightful. Maioni is routinely asked to write for many of Canada's major news sources given her clear-cut and unbiased understanding of apparently difficult and snarled issues.
Past, present, and future. Public insurance systems in Canada emerged in a specific set of historical and political circumstances - from 1960s Saskatchewan to current innovations in health care and fiscal arrangements, all are efficiently summarized here.
An excellent framework for understanding debates over reform. Maioni's view-at-30,000-feet map of our systems helps explain problem areas - waiting lists, overcrowding of emergency rooms, fee-for-service medicine, extra-billing, or the need for more team-based medical models.
Comparative. A fascinating and revealing look at how Canada's systems of health care compares and contrasts to those of the United States and Britain.
Explores a changing climate. Day surgery, drug therapies, and chronic disease management now play a greater role than they have in the past. Similarly financing the increasing costs of health care has changed and will continue to change, for example as health accords conclude and provinces take on more responsibility.
Financing. A clear summary of how much is being spent, what the money is being spent on, and who is paying.
A direct look at rising costs. Maioni evaluates the specific drivers of health care costs in Canada, looking at how these are managed now, and how they may be managed in future as expensive new drugs and technologies continue to be developed.
Is health care in a crisis? Polls reveal a sizeable erosion in the public's confidence in the future of health care. Maioni considers various paths that may be taken in future to keep health care sustainable.
Federalism. Maioni is an expert in federal structure, and explains how this influences the financing and delivery of health care in Canada given the shifting equilibrium between centralized policy-making from Ottawa to a more decentralized context.
Helps us frame the big issues. Offers ways to think about questions such as who has a right to health care, how sustainable is our system, and what services we should agree to cover.