Open AccessConfronting Barriers to Improving Healthcare Performance in Canada
Author(s) -
Jason M. Sutherland
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
healthcare policy
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.391
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1715-6580
pISSN - 1715-6572
DOI - 10.12927/hcpol.2021.26660
Subject(s) - health care , pandemic , healthcare delivery , public healthcare , covid-19 , healthcare system , business , action (physics) , health care delivery , process management , political science , medicine , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
Is substantive transformation of healthcare delivery in canada a fool's paradise? Since this idiom refers to a state of happiness unconnected to underlying truths, it may be an apt descriptor given the many problems with the provinces' and territories' delivery of healthcare. Some of these problems cause harm, such as hospital-acquired infections, while others are simply wasteful, such as unnecessary tests or imaging. Moreover, meaningful transformation of healthcare delivery has been elusive and divisive in provinces and territories for decades (Martin et al. 2018; McIntosh et al. 2010; Ontario Ministry of Finance 2012).