The Introduction of Case-Based Funding Case based funding reforms were introduced independently in Ontario and Alberta in 1988, with the goals of improving equity in funding across hospitals and efficiency in the delivery of services. Both provinces appointed multi-stakeholder steering...

This paper describes a method for the case study of financial incentives in health care systems. This approach is for applying a conceptual framework that describes funding changes -- and their transformation into “financial incentives” that change behaviour -- as a communication process...

Study Objectives - (i) To develop a non-mortality based proxy for relative needs for health care among regional populations. (ii) To compare this proxy with a mortality-based proxy for population relative needs. (iii) To evaluate the additional value of a proxy based on a combination of...