We conducted a literature review of studies on Physician Assistants working in a variety of settings and found few evaluation studies on the costs and/or effectiveness of Physician Assistants in primary care practices, Emergency Departments and in hospital settings other than Emergency...

In recent years many empirical studies have reported substantial differences in people's responses to willingness-to-pay vs compensation questions in the context of measuring potential economic losses. This paper offers an alternative explanation to this phenomenon. We claim that such...

Recent publications have acknowledged the theoretical superiority of the healthy years equivalent (HYE) concept over quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), but have raised questions about the practicality of measuring them. We describe a simple, two-stage, lottery-based approach to measure HYEs...

Effective management and productive use of health care expenditures in Canada requires that primary care doctors in Canada be paid by means of a system which more closely reflects the goal of improving the health of the population and that means replacing the current fee-for-service system. This...

Real reforms attempt to change how health care is financed and how it is rationed. Three main explanations have been offered for why such reforms are so difficult: institutional gridlock, path dependency and societal preferences. The latter posits that choices made regarding the health care...

Health-related external benefits are of potentially large importance for public policy. This paper investigates health-related external benefits using a stated-preference discrete-choice experiment framed in a health care context and including choice scenarios defined by six attributes related...

Background- Canada’s public health insurance system fully covers medically necessary hospital and physician services, but does not cover community-based non-physician mental health provider services or prescription drugs. Almost 2/3 of Canadians have private supplemental insurance for extended...

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...