As more women acquire professional qualifications, the numbers of couples in which both spouses are professionals will increase. All physicians living in Ontario who had been certified in family medicine between 1989 and 1991, after completing a residency, were surveyed in the autumn of 1993....

Objectives - To examine the influence of medical education and residency education on decisions regarding type of practice, practice activities and attitudes of family physicians. Design - Secondary analysis of data from a mailed survey of a cohort of family physicians that had a 70% response...

All provincial governments in Canada reimburse some portion of the cost of out-of-hospital prescription drugs consumed by groups such as the elderly or those with low incomes. A characteristic shared by all programs in recent years has been rapid growth in expenditures. In an effort to control...

This paper explores the emergence, evolution and dominance of four predominant mean-ings of the concept of medical necessity that have been used in past and current health policy debates about the appropriate level of service coverage under Canada’s health insurance pro-gram. Data for this...

Every funding system creates “incentives.” However, in real policy applications, the motivating quality of a funding change is not inherent to the funding structure. Rather, contextual factors highly determine how organizations and individuals interpret, feel motivated by, and act in...