Canada - World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Acknowledgements
The HiT on Canada was produced by the European Observatory on Health
Systems and Policies.
This edition was written by Gregory P. Marchildon (University of Regina).
It was edited by Anna Sagan, Research Fellow, working with the support of
Sarah Thomson, Research Director, both from the Observatory’s team at the
London School of Economics and Political Science. Sara Allin (University
of Toronto and Canadian Institute for Health Information) contributed to the
report by reviewing part of an earlier draft. The basis for this edition was the
previous HiT on Canada, which was published in 2005, written by Gregory
Marchildon and edited by Sara Allin.
The Observatory and the authors are grateful to Geoffrey Ballinger
(Canadian Institute for Health Information), Jeremiah Hurley (McMaster
University), Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University) and Carolyn Tuohy
(University of Toronto) for reviewing the report.
Special thanks go also to the various (anonymous) employees of Health
Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada for their assistance in
providing information and for their invaluable comments on previous drafts
of the manuscript and suggestions about plans and current policy options in
the Canadian health system. In addition, the author has benefited from the
research assistance provided by his graduate students including Adam Mills,
Michael Sherar, Kim Hill, Cassandra Opikokew and Colleen Walsh.
Thanks are also extended to the WHO Regional Office for Europe for their
European Health for All database from which data on health services were
extracted; to the OECD for the data on health services in western Europe; and
to the World Bank for the data on health expenditure in central and eastern
European countries. Thanks are also due to national institutions that have
provided statistical data and particularly to the Canada Institute for Health
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