Health Care Economics and Organizations

Description:  Drug Expenditure in Canada, 1985 to 2011 updates trends in drug spending in Canada, primarily from retail establishments, in total, by public and private payers, and by type of drug (prescribed and non-prescribed). Provincial/territorial and international comparisons are included.

Description:  Developed by the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres (OACCAC), and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), the paper identifies the strategic challenges facing Ontario’s health care system, and outlines the actions that must be taken to ensure it can meet the access and quality of care needs of patients in today’s challenging economic environment. The pillars are: Setting Ambitious Goals; Planning Properly; Letting Evidence Drive Care Decisions; and, Connecting Care

Description:  Released in 2010 in partnership with the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres and the Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs, Ideas and Opportunities for Bending the Health Care Cost Curve: Advice for the Government of Ontario was a business case approach to help the province deal with growing health care demands in the face of constrained budgets. The report outlined 16 tangible and evidence-based recommendations to find efficiencies while improving access and quality of care. Among them were strategies to better manage costly chronic illnesses, appropriately shift services from hospitals to the community, as well as lower physician and drug expenditures to be more in line with those of other provinces.

Description:  Learning From the Best: Benchmarking Canada's Health System examines Canadians' health status, non-medical determinants of health, quality of care and access to care. It is based on international results that appear in the OECD's Health at a Glance 2011, which provides the latest statistics and indicators for comparing health systems across 34 member countries.