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Hospital financing in Canada Barer, M. L.

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The simple story of Canadian hospital financing -- single-source (tax-based) public funding through provincial Ministries of Health to individual institutions through prospective global budgets -- offers a relatively accurate general picture which, nevertheless, masks both the provincial/territorial variations in the details, and the different ways in which capital and operating costs are funded and allocated. The objective of this paper is to put some (but not all the) flesh on the bones of this story, with a particular focus on recent new funding initiatives (using a few selected provinces for details), and on the less well-understood capital funding process.

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Title
Hospital financing in Canada
Alternate Title
HPRU 93:6D
Creator
Barer, M. L.
Contributor
University of British Columbia. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Publisher
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Date Issued
1993-04
Description
The simple story of Canadian hospital financing -- single-source (tax-based) public funding through provincial Ministries of Health to individual institutions through prospective global budgets -- offers a relatively accurate general picture which, nevertheless, masks both the provincial/territorial variations in the details, and the different ways in which capital and operating costs are funded and allocated. The objective of this paper is to put some (but not all the) flesh on the bones of this story, with a particular focus on recent new funding initiatives (using a few selected provinces for details), and on the less well-understood capital funding process.
Subject
Hospitals -- Canada -- Finance; Hospitals -- Canada -- Cost of operation; Economics, Hospital -- Canada
Geographic Location
Canada
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2014-08-29
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI
10.14288/1.0048291
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50274
Affiliation
Health Care and Epidemiology, Department of; Non UBC; Medicine, Faculty of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
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