Provincial Health Systems: Are They Imploding?

Recently, we have all seen myriad articles in the national newspapers announcing that provinces' healthcare systems are imploding, with authors describing systems in states of "crisis" (Laverly 2022), "visibly coming apart" (Tumilty 2022), "broken" (Urback 2022) an...

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Published inHealthcare policy Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 6 - 16
Main Author Sutherland, Jason M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
French
Published Canada Longwoods Publishing 01.08.2022
Longwoods Publishing Corporation
Subjects
Canada
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Health care
Humans
Canada
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Summary:Recently, we have all seen myriad articles in the national newspapers announcing that provinces' healthcare systems are imploding, with authors describing systems in states of "crisis" (Laverly 2022), "visibly coming apart" (Tumilty 2022), "broken" (Urback 2022) and "a travesty" (Picard 2022). Without minimizing the hardships or frustrations that some patients and their families have been experiencing at the hands of provincial health systems, are the harsh descriptors apt or fair?
ISSN:1715-6572
1715-6580
DOI:10.12927/hcpol.2022.26910