Journal Articles and Reports

The Benefits of Public Funding of Health Care

Journal Articles

(The following articles will download as pdf documents)

Woolhandler, S., Campbell, T. and Himmelstein, D.U. Cost of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada. New England Journal of Medicine, 2003; 349:768-75

Woolhandler, S. and Himmelstein, D.U. The costs of care and administration at for-profit and other hospitals in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 1997; 336:769

Reports

(The following two reports will download as pdf documents)

Opinion - Private Funding of Hospital and Medical Services - Conseil de la Sante et du bien-etre, December, 2002

Cristina Boccuti and Marilyn Moon, Comparing Medicare and Private Insurers - Growth Rates in Spending Over Three Decades. Project Hope - The People to People Health Foundation, Inc. March/April 2003

The Benefits of Not-for-Profit Delivery of Health Care

Journal Articles

Devereaux PJ, Choi PT-L, Lacchetti C, et al. A systematic review and meta-analysis ofPJ Devereaux studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals. C.M.A.J. 2002;166:1399-1406

Devereaux PT, Schunemann HJ, Ravindran N, et al. Comparison of mortality between private for-profit: and private not-for- profit hemodialysis centers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA. 2002; 288: 2449-2457.

Finding the Dollars to Support Publicly Funded Health Care

Journal ArticlesGordon Guyatt

Gordon Guyatt, Armine Yalnizyan and P.J. Devereaux. Solving the public health care sustainability puzzle, CMAJ; July 9, 2002;167 (1)

Social Determinants of Health

Reports

(The following four reports will download as pdf documents)

Dennis Raphael and E. Sara Farrel. Beyond medicine and lifestyle: addressing the societal determinants of cardiovascular disease in North America. Leadership in Health Services, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2002

James R. Dunn. Are Widening Income Inequalities Making Canada Less Healthy? The Health Determinants Partnership Making Connections Project, March 2002

Steve Kerstetter. Rags and Riches: Wealth Inequality in Canada. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, December 2002 (Note - this is a 70 page document)

Matthew Geigen-Miller. It's Time to Break the Silence: Creating meaningful access to rights and advocacy services for young people in care in Ontario. Defence for Children International-Canada, 2003
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