Canada - World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
Canada - World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
Canada - World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
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<strong>Health</strong> systems in transition <strong>Canada</strong><br />
including the <strong>World</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Organization</strong> (WHO) <strong>Regional</strong> <strong>Office</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Europe</strong>’s<br />
<strong>Europe</strong>an <strong>Health</strong> <strong>for</strong> All database, data from national statistical offices, Eurostat,<br />
the Organisation <strong>for</strong> Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) <strong>Health</strong><br />
Data, data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the <strong>World</strong> Bank’s<br />
<strong>World</strong> Development Indicators and any other relevant sources considered<br />
useful by the authors. Data collection methods and definitions sometimes vary,<br />
but typically are consistent within each separate review.<br />
There have been some challenges in adapting the HiT template to the<br />
Canadian case due largely to the inability to exploit WHO <strong>Europe</strong>an data<br />
and the difficulty of applying terminology rooted in <strong>Europe</strong>an history and<br />
health re<strong>for</strong>m experience to <strong>Canada</strong>. Since the WHO <strong>Europe</strong>an <strong>Health</strong> <strong>for</strong> All<br />
database does not include Canadian data, it was necessary to compare <strong>Canada</strong><br />
using OECD and other data sources. For most of these comparisons, <strong>Canada</strong><br />
was compared with a smaller set of countries than is customary in HiTs. Five<br />
countries were selected <strong>for</strong> systematic quantitative comparisons with <strong>Canada</strong><br />
based on historical, political, economic and health policy criteria: Australia,<br />
France, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. To avoid confusion<br />
with an identically named federal programme in the United States, medicare in<br />
<strong>Canada</strong> is spelled without a capital “M”.<br />
Comments and suggestions <strong>for</strong> the further development and improvement<br />
of the HiT series are most welcome and can be sent to info@obs.euro.who.int.<br />
HiTs and HiT summaries are available on the Observatory’s web site at<br />
http://www.healthobservatory.eu.