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 of
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 Articles
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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