There is currently much international interest in principles and processes for determining which services should qualify for health insurance packages. However, there has yet been little analysis of the implications of actual deinsurance decisions made by such priority-setting exercises. This...

In an attempt to limit its health care expenditures, Ontario is, as one option, exploring the possibilities of a capitated system for service delivery payments as opposed to the present mixture of global budgets and fee-for-service. After reviewing the literatures on capitation (primarily...

In this paper, physicians' decisions regarding the specialty, community size, and mode of their first practices are analyzed in a simultaneous decision model using a nested logit specification. Physicians face a choice set consisting of eight specialties, seven community sizes, and three...

Problems of access to physician services have arisen in Canada at a time when physician hours of work have been undergoing important changes. This study investigates the relationship between physicians' hours of dir ect patient care and physicians' service supply using individual-level data from...

Prescription drug expenditures are one of the fastest rising components of provincial health care spending. One of the primary responses of provincial governments to rising drug expenditures has been to introduce or increase beneficiary co-payment requirements. This paper examines the evidence...

This paper employs a cohort analysis to examine the relative importance of different factors in explaining changes in the number of hours spent in direct patient care by Canadian general|family practitioners (GPs) over the period 1982-2003. Cohorts are defined by year of graduation from medical...