The purpose of this article is to provide an informed comparison of health care in the United States and Canada along multiple dimensions. Specifically this article looks at coverage, access, cost, health outcomes, satisfaction, and underlying ideology. Canada fares better than the United States wit...
INTRODUCTIONHealthcare systems have traditionally emerged for the purpose of treating acute illnesses. However, rising hospital costs, accentuated by aging populations and increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, have resulted in novel challenges for the provision of care. As many chronic diseases are ...
Using a cross-national comparative approach, we examined the influence of health insurance on U.S. immigrant versus non-immigrant disparities in access to primary health care. With data from the 2002/2003 Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health, we gathered evidence using three approaches: 1...
Health equity has long been regarded as an overarching objective pursued by the whole health systems [1]. The evidence from previous research suggested that health insurance which designed to improve health care access could reduce health inequity [2, 3]. Therefore, China has implemented a series...
Effective communication in interdisciplinary healthcare teams is key to quality and safety in healthcare. In 2001, the US Institute of Medicine identified a lack of interdisciplinary communication and collaboration as a major reason for system-wide quality and safety issues [1]. Communication issues ...
A three-stage questionnaire was designed applying Delphi technique to get the viewpoints of pediatricians and child health experts. Sample: Only developed countries with comprehensive health plans for children aged 1-3 were selected. Germany, England, Australia, Canada and Japan were preferred for ...
Canada: Canada uses the NAICS system, which was jointly developed with the United States and Mexico. Canada’s use of NAICS facilitates consistent economic data analysis and reporting across North America. Mexico: Mexico adopts NAICS for the same reasons as the US and Canada, ensuring a unified...
personally receive.”6Similarly, in a recent Gallup poll, approximately two-thirds of US citizens said they were “completely or mostly satisfied with the US healthcare system.”7Why is the disconnect between the health care system’s performance and our personal perception of quality so pervasive...
Instead, using atax-to-GDPratio is one of the more useful ways to compare tax systems around the world. What is the Tax-to-GDP Ratio? The tax-to-GDP ratio compares a country’s tax revenue to the size of its economy, which in this case is measured by itsGDP. ...
Therefore, it is imperative that ade- quate strategies and methods are employed to evaluate the success of a nursing care activity. One such strategy in the field of nursing care is the application of objective struc- tured clinical examination (OSCE) of a nursing activity. The purpose of ...