Reading Time: 3 minutes If we are going to invest more money, we should place it where we can improve people’s health, recognizing that more service is not always better
Author: Raisa Deber
Professor Deber’s current research centers on Canadian health policy. Current projects, conducted with colleagues and students, include: implications of the distribution of health expenditures and public/private roles for financing and delivery of health services (including primary care); examination of where nurses and other health professionals work and the factors associated with differential “stickiness” across sub-sectors; issues associated with the movement of care from hospitals to home and community; approaches to accountability; and factors affecting patient engagement.
Canada should stop living in the health-care funding past
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should work together to fund pharmacare, dental care and rehabilitation as part of an improved funding model