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7560054

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-10-26
pubmed:abstractText
Public administration of the Canadian health care program has been very successful in preserving a single-tiered system, ensuring accessibility and accountability, reducing administrative costs and the need for regulation, and fairly successful in achieving orderly planning and cost control. Although the provincial programs are administered by health departments, failure to link personal to public health services has robbed them of a population perspective, resulting in insufficient emphasis on prevention and on the effectiveness of interventions, and has hampered the development of comprehensive primary care. The program supports insufficient research and innovation, and has failed to link payments to performance. Four lessons for a national health care program are drawn from the Canadian experience: (1) keep it public; (2) use a single payer; (3) link personal health services to public health; and (4) provide health departments with policy expertise. Despite its overall success, the Canadian program can no longer be afforded. Many of the proposals for its reform challenge the values upon which the program is built.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0197-5897
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
141-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Health department administration of the Canadian Health Care Program.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Historical Article