[EQ] Health Care in Canada 2007

            Health Care in Canada 2007

           
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) September 20, 2007

 

            Available online as PDF file [67p.] at:

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“…….Today, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released its eight annual Health Care in Canada. This year's report offers a compendium focusing on key health care issues in order to serve as a helpful reference tool for health care decision-makers and Canadians.

Health Care in Canada's new, more concise format provides an overview of key analytic work undertaken at CIHI and elsewhere as it relates to CIHI's priority research areas:

 

*Health care financing: Canada spent an estimated $148 billion on health services in 2006.

This section looks at how the system is financed and what we are paying for.

 

*Health human resources: About 1 in 10 Canadians work in health and social services. This segment provides a profile on Canada's health care providers-who they are, where they are from, migration patterns and changes in the work they do, as well as the well-being of health care workers.

 

*Quality of care and patient safety: From heart attack survival to problems with medications, this section outlines what we know and don't know about the quality of health care and patient safety in Canada.

 

*Access to care: Seeing a doctor, insurance for drugs and dental care, wait times for surgery- this section provides up-to-date information on Canadians' access to a wide range of health services.

 

*Population Health: Patterns of health and disease are largely a consequence of where and how we learn, live, work and play. This section examines the relationship between place and health, including variations in health by neighbourhood income and how different aspects of our lives affect physical activity, what we eat and other factors that influence how healthy we are…..”

 

Table of Contents

About the Canadian Institute for Health Information

Acknowledgements

About This Report

Where Our Health Dollars Go

Health Human Resources in Canada

Access to Care

Quick Facts

Quality and Safety of Care

Population Health: The Importance of "Place"

Information Updates

Quick Reference Tables

Index

 

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[EQ] Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence

Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence

May Lim,^1,2 Richard Metzler,^1,3 Yaneer Bar-Yam^1*
1 New England Complex Systems Institute, MA, USA.
² Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.
³ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

 

Science 14 September 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5844, pp. 1540 - 1544

DOI: 10.1126/science.1142734

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5844/1540

“…..We identify a process of global pattern formation that causes regions to differentiate by culture. Violence arises at boundaries between regions that are not sufficiently well defined. We model cultural differentiation as a separation of groups whose members prefer similar neighbors, with a characteristic group size at which violence occurs. Application of this model to the area of the former Yugoslavia and to India accurately predicts the locations of reported conflict. This model also points to imposed mixing or boundary clarification as mechanisms for promoting peace….”.

Press Release

Mathematical model predicts ethnic violence
Clear boundaries between groups prevent bloodshed

Cambridge, MA—“….A mathematical model detailed in today's issue of Science can predict the likelihood of ethnic violence in a region by analyzing its ethnic census data. As ethnic violence claims millions of lives around the world, the scientists from The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) who performed the study say the model could help to end these conflicts.

"Science can help by providing a clearer understanding of the impact of policy decisions," says Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of The New England Complex Systems Institute. "With many factors involved in cultural and ethnic conflict, a model that helps to pinpoint the most critical factors can help to bring bloodshed to an end by allowing us to make interventions that actually work."

According to the study, violence takes place when ethnic groups reach characteristic sizes and population structures

More information is available at: http://necsi.org/research/ethnicviolence/sci317/

 

 

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[EQ] We Can Do Better - Improving the Health of the American People

We Can Do Better — Improving the Health of the American People

 

Steven A. Schroeder, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco.

Special Article - Shattuck Lecture

The New England Journal of Medicine - Volume 357:1221-1228  September 20, 2007  Number 12

 

  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/12/1221?query=TOC

 

“….The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet it ranks poorly on nearly every measure of health status. How can this be? What explains this apparent paradox?

 

The two-part answer is deceptively simple — first, the pathways to better health do not generally depend on better health care, and second, even in those instances in which health care is important, too many Americans do not receive it, receive it too late, or receive poor-quality care. In this lecture, I first summarize where the United States stands in international rankings of health status. Next, using the concept of determinants of premature death as a key measure of health status, I discuss pathways to improvement, emphasizing lessons learned from tobacco control and acknowledging the reality that better health (lower mortality and a higher level of functioning) cannot be achieved without paying greater attention to poor Americans. I conclude with speculations on why we have not focused on improving health in the United States and what it would take to make that happen….”

 

Health Care for All?

 

M. Gregg Bloche is a professor of law at Georgetown University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, both in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

The New England Journal of Medicine - Volume 357:1173-1175  September 20, 2007  Number 12

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/12/1173?query=TOC

 

 

 

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