Our system of Universal public insurance for health care is by a considerable magin Canada's most successful and popular puiblic program. Our system works, and compared to most other systems works well, while the American alternative does not.

Control of health care costs is often portrayed as a struggle between external, "natural" forces pushing costs up and individuals, groups, and societies trying to resists the inevitable.

While concerns over escalation in health care costs are virtually universal in the industrialized world, the forms of policy response, and their relative success, have been quite variable.

This exposes issues about canada's public health insurance programs.

A description of recent "Reform" in the Canadian health care system could be made very short. There has not been meet any reform. The authors presents a document presenting the Canadian Health care system and its funding sources.

The most sophesticated and effective health care in the world cannot produce results as good as simply remaining health in the first place.

"Medicare" has two meanings for Canadians: the entire range of health care services, or only those (mainly physicians and hospitals) mandated and governed by the Canada Health Act (CHA). This paper focuses on the narrower legal meaning of Medicare, as does the recent Alberta proposal to fund...

Birth defects occur in population in 3-5% of births. All those birth defects due to chromosomal errors, hundreds of those due to single genes and many of those due to unknown or multifactoral cause can be detected prenatally. However, it is not feasible to test all pregnancies for all of these...

The major objective of this study was to examine the utilization of publicly funded palliative care services in the Vancouver region by adult residents of Vancouver, in the one prior to their death. In particular the intent of this study was to: -determine the proportion of terminally ill...

An exploration of the relationship between social capital in districts and effective political governance by District Health Boards (DHBs) in Sasakatchewan, Canada, was conducted. A model was proposed that identified components of social capital such as trust, commitment and identity,...