Canada - World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
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<strong>Health</strong> systems in transition <strong>Canada</strong> 63<br />
provincial governments had increased spending on health care. By 2000, the<br />
federal government had begun to increase cash transfers to the provinces that<br />
culminated with a commitment in 2004 to apply an automatic rate of annual<br />
increase of 6% <strong>for</strong> the following 10 years (CICS, 2004).<br />
Although both public and private spending per capita has increased since<br />
1995, private-sector health expenditures have grown more rapidly than<br />
government spending. This is partially a result of technological developments<br />
that have allowed fully covered inpatient services to be shifted to outpatient<br />
settings with less complete public coverage. <strong>Canada</strong>’s share of private health<br />
expenditures, in part the product of almost no public coverage <strong>for</strong> dental care<br />
and vision care, is high by other OECD country standards (CIHI 2011a).<br />
As can be seen in Figs 3.1 and 3.2, <strong>Canada</strong>’s recent experience in terms of the<br />
growth of health spending as a share of the economy is similar to other OECD<br />
countries. The one exception is the United States, which spends appreciably<br />
more as a proportion of its economy.<br />
Fig. 3.1<br />
Trends in total health expenditure as a share of GDP in <strong>Canada</strong> and selected countries,<br />
1990–2010<br />
1990<br />
Share of GDP (%)<br />
1992<br />
1994<br />
1996<br />
1998<br />
2000<br />
2002<br />
Source: OECD (2011).<br />
Note: 2010 data was available only <strong>for</strong> <strong>Canada</strong>, not <strong>for</strong> other countries.<br />
United Kingdom<br />
2004<br />
2006<br />
Australia<br />
2008<br />
2010<br />
United States<br />
France<br />
<strong>Canada</strong><br />
Sweden