Four proposals for market-based health care system reform

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 660-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Care System

Washington Review: Health Care System Reform

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-50
Author(s):  
Barney Sellers ◽  
Edward Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Care System

Values and Canadian Health Care: an Alberta Exploration

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Wilson ◽  
Doris M. Kieser
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Common Good ◽  
System Reform ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Canadian Health Care System ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care ◽  
The Common ◽  
Care System

In March 1994, a health care conference was held in Edmonton, Alberta, at which the values of conference participants towards health care were systematically recorded and analysed. This exploration is significant because the values that underpin the structure of the current publicly-funded and administered Canadian health care system rarely enter current discussions regarding health care system reform. Rather, economic and other sociopolitical forces now seem to be having a major impact on plans and actual changes within the health care system. Thus, the underlying attitudes and beliefs of Canadians towards health care have not been articulated or given due credence. The conference par ticipants identified three dominant values: (1) the dignity of the human person as an indi vidual and social being; (2) respect for pluralism and difference; and (3) accountability These values were found to be robust, in that they sustain a focus on the 'common good'. The common good is the core of the Canadian health care system, and is enshrined in the 1984 Canada Health Act. Conceptually, these values could also lead to significant changes in health care, in keeping with the common good, particularly those changes focusing on the current deficiencies of the Canadian health care system.

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