Report and Web seminar: Canadian Health Care Matters - How Do Canadians Rate the Health Care System?

de: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) : ruglucia@paho.org
para: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
fecha: 21 de enero de 2011 11:47
asunto: Report and Web seminar: Canadian Health Care Matters - How Do Canadians Rate the Health Care System?


How Do Canadians Rate the Health Care System?

Results from the 2010 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.

Canadian Health Care Matters, Bulletin 4. Toronto: Health Council of Canada

Available online PDF [38p.] at: http://bit.ly/flcjVm


Web seminar:
February 14, 2011

Website to register: http://bit.ly/e9zcQT - Monday, February 14, 2011 from 10am - 11:30am (Toronto-EST)


To learn about Health System Performance in Canada: What Can We Learn from Top Performing Countries?.

Recent analysis of the 2010 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey on citizens’ perceptions of the health care system shows that Canada has much to learn from other countries when it comes to access, affordability, timeliness and coordination of primary health care.

John G. Abbott, CEO of the Health Council of Canada, will host a panel of researchers from three of the survey’s top performing countries.

- From the Netherlands is Dr. Jako Burgers, Senior Researcher, IQ Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre.
- From the United Kingdom is Nicholas Mays, Professor of Health Policy, Department of Health Services Research & Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
- From Switzerland is Dr. Monika Diebold, Head of the Swiss Health Observatory in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Each panelist will provide a brief overview of the structure of the primary health care system in their country, and their thoughts about their citizens’ general perceptions of care and overall ratings of the health system.
As representatives of top performing countries, the panelists will comment on best practices, system characteristics, policy drivers or other factors they feel may have contributed to their countries’ high rankings in the survey.


To read the report in advance of the webinar. Here is the link PDF [38p.] at:http://bit.ly/flcjVm



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