Essential Reading - Academic Journals and Reports
Sustainable Healthcare for Seniors: Keeping it Public - by Greg FlanaganThis report was published by the Parkland Institute - September 2008. Read
Angell, M., MD. Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 179(9). - More
Martin, M. and Nordal, C., A Visit Down Under: Our Journey to Improve Canada's Healthcare System, Healthcare Quarterly, Vol. 11 No. 3, 2008 - More
Australian Medical Association Public Hospital Report Card - 2007.
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Carroll, A.E. and Ackerman, R.T. Majority U.S. Physicians support single payer national health insurance - Ann Int Med, 2008:148:567, No. 7 - More
Kuttner, R., Market-Based Failure - A Second Opinion on U.S. Health Care Costs, N Engl J Med - More
Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating An Earlier Analysis, Nolte, E. and McKee, M., Project Hope-The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., January/February, 2008. More
See related news report - Canadian health care better and cheaper than U.S.
Guyatt, G, Devereaux, PJ, Lexchin, J, Stone, SB, Yalnizyan, A, Himmelstein, D, Woolhandler, S, Qi Zhou, Goldsmith, L, Cook, DJ, Haines, T, Lacchetti, C, Lavis, J, Sullivan, T, Mills, E, Kraus, S, Bhatnagar, N, - A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States, Open Medicine, April 18, 2007. Vol. 1(1), pp.27-36.
James, Paul D et al., Avoidable mortality by neighbourhood income in Canada: 25 years after the establishment of universal health insurance., Jo. of Epidemiology and Community Health; 2007;61:287-296 - More
Dhalla, Irfan, Canada's health care system and the sustainability paradox, CMAJ, July 3, 2007; 177 (1). - More
Duckett, Stephen J., Living in the parallel universe in Australia: public Medicare and private hospitals, CMAJ 2005; 173:745-747 - More
Woolhandler, S., Campbell, T. and Himmelstein, D.U., Cost of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada. N Eng J of Med, 2003; 349:768-75
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Boccuti C and Moon M, Comparing Medicare and Private Insurers - Growth Rates in Spending Over Three Decades. 2003, Project Hope - The People to People Health Foundation, Inc. More
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. More
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. More
Guyatt G, Yalnizyan A and Devereaux, PJ, Solving the public health care sustainability puzzle CMAJ; July 9, 2002;167 (1) More
