Health Sciences 3400A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Health Care In Canada, Current Liability, Radiography

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Melanie McPhail

Document Summary

The non- financial inputs into the canadian health system include physical, human and information technology resources: although almost all resources can be assigned a financial value. During the immediate post war years, canada experienced a rapid growth in the number and size of hospitals due to the growth in demand for impatient care. The construction boom was fueled by national hospital construction grants provided to the provinces by the federal government and by the introduction of hospitalization in the 1st decades after the second world war. Investment in health capital by the mid 1960s had slowed, and by the 1980s/1990s, provincial governments were encouraging hospital consolidation as well as reducing the number of small/inefficient hospitals. Canada has experience a decline in the number of hospitals: from the mid 1980s until the mid 1990s, there was a 20% drop of hospitals that offered impatient care. The number of hospital beds peaked by the late 1960s and has been declining ever since.