Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: ESPITE CHANGE, UNCERTAINTY AND DISARRAY IN CANADA'S HEALTHCARE system(s), some observations about Canadian medicare still seem beyond challenge:• access to healthcare based solely on need is the core value that gave rise to and sustains medicare; • the advent, through medicare, of universal, publicly funded physician and hospital services substantially reduced disparities in access to, and outcomes of, healthcare based on socio-economic status (Enterline et al. 1973; James et al. 2007); • despite those gains, disparities remain -factors other than need continue to influence access to and use of services.
Source: Healthcare policy
Author: Brian Hutchison
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2112589293