BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access Priority setting: what constitutes success? A conceptual framework for successful priority setting Shannon L Sibbald*1,2, Peter A Singer3, Ross Upshur2,4 and Douglas K Martin1,2 Address: 1Department of Health Policy, ...
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We then turn to the neglect of the political economy of health and its institutions in GR 24 to rewrite what it means to eliminate discrimination against women “in the field of health care” to ensure “access to health care services.” In this interpretation of Article 12, we reimagine ...
“The primary contributor is long-term underinvestment in health services.” In a government-run system, the government sets the country’s health care budget. That budget competes with other valid claims on taxpayer money, such as defense, education and welfare. As a result, the health care s...
Regulation supports public protection and assurances that recipients receive high quality care. Regulatory oversight builds a framework to hold registered PSWs accountable for the services they provide. The HSCPOA Act allows for the establishment of the Authority. The Authority is a regulatory body ...
The federal government is in turn responsible for setting and administering national standards via the Canada Health Act, and for providing support with funding and the delivery of health care services to particular population groups (e.g., First Nation communities living on reserves, Inuit, and ...
[32], despite statutes in Canadian jurisdictions that mandate or permit reporting of personal health information (PHI) for public health purposes without patient consent [33]. Similarly, the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule permits the disclosure of PHI to ...
Fifth, this work needs to be extended to a variety of diverse groups that may have unique behavioural and illness contexts, such as racial/ethnic groups [58, 71], those without health care insurance [15, 86], as well as during other forms of adversity such as the COVID-19 pandemic [...
The initial step in the development of the methodology was to capture all data associated with any physician who provided anesthesia services in Canada. We focused on 10 provincial and territorial jurisdictions: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pr...
Although the costs of physician and hospital services are covered under the Canada Health Act, there is no universal coverage for prescription medications or other health services. Cost-related drug nonadherence is prevalent among low-income working-age adults, and it rises with the number of ...