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- Title
Primary Health Care in Canada: Systems in Motion.
- Authors
HUTCHISON, BRIAN; LEVESQUE, JEAN‐FREDERIC; STRUMPF, ERIN; COYLE, NATALIE
- Abstract
During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core. In the early 2000s, a new policy environment emerged. This policy analysis examines primary health care reform efforts in Canada during the last decade, drawing on descriptive information from published and gray literature and from a series of semistructured interviews with informed observers of primary health care in Canada. Primary health care in Canada has entered a period of potentially transformative change. Key initiatives include support for interprofessional primary health care teams, group practices and networks, patient enrollment with a primary care provider, financial incentives and blended-payment schemes, development of primary health care governance mechanisms, expansion of the primary health care provider pool, implementation of electronic medical records, and quality improvement training and support. Canada's experience suggests that primary health care transformation can be achieved voluntarily in a pluralistic system of private health care delivery, given strong government and professional leadership working in concert.
- Subjects
CANADA; HEALTH care reform; PRIMARY health care; MEDICAL care; HEALTH policy; ANALYSIS of variance; GOAL (Psychology); HEALTH insurance; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL care cost control; NATIONAL health services; GENERAL practitioners; DISEASE management; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Milbank Quarterly, 2011, Vol 89, Issue 2, p256
- ISSN
0887-378X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0009.2011.00628.x