HSCI 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pharmaceutical Care, Physical Therapy, Population Ageing
28 Feb 2020
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In canada, services may be privately delivered but are financed through public insurance. Private providers can include for-profit and not-for-profit institutions that offer hospital, long-term care, and community services funded by provinces. Physicians contract with provincial insurance providers for established rates but are not employed by the government. Counselling, physiotherapy, surgery: health spending in canada. Orange is adjusted, blue is current spending dollars. The relation to health spending and gdp . Health increases then gdp increases, if health falls then gdp decreases. A lot of private spending in usa. Canada - has more out of pocket spending towards pharmaceutical care. Hospitals have been slowly decreasing due to substitution like clinics. Less invasive so no need to really stay as long in the hospital. Increase on spending on drugs due to increase in drug prices: population aging and health spending, health care spending increases with age, though spending on babies is also pretty high.
