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- Title
Chronic disease management and the home-care alternative in Ontario, Canada.
- Authors
Tsasis, Peter
- Abstract
The pressure on our health-care system to deliver efficient, quality and cost-effective care is increasing. The debate on its sustainability is also expanding. These challenges can be managed with revisions to our health-care policy frameworks governing how and what public health-care services are delivered. Chronic disease management and home care can together ease many of the present and future pressures facing the health-care system. However, the current level of investment and the present policy are not effectively supporting movement in this direction. Updating the Canada Health Act to reflect the realities of our health-care system, and developing policies to support the areas of interdisciplinary teamwork and system integration are needed to facilitate chronic disease management and home care in Canada. This article lays out the challenges, highlights the impending issues and suggests a framework for moving forward.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; CANADA; CHRONIC diseases; MEDICAL care use; DISEASE management
- Publication
Health Services Management Research, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 3, p136
- ISSN
0951-4848
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1258/hsmr.2009.009002