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Alberta

A Health System Profile

John Church Neale Smith

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English
University of Toronto Press
13 March 2022
Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first comprehensive and detailed overview of the economic, political, population health, program and service delivery aspects of health care in Alberta and the resulting health outcomes.

Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first detailed description of Alberta's health care system and the underpinning political and social forces that have shaped it. Due to the significant wealth resulting from government revenues generated through the energy sector, Alberta has been able to develop an extensive public health and health care infrastructure.

Alberta has used its financial resources to attract health professionals by offering the highest levels of financial compensation in Canada. However, although it spends more per capita than other Canadian jurisdictions, Alberta's health care system costs and health outcomes performance are mediocre compared to many other Canadian jurisdictions. This unexpected outcome is the result of the unique interplay of economic and political forces within Alberta's political economy.

Through an examination of Alberta's political and economic history, and using research on the structures and services provided, Alberta: A Health Systems Profile provides a detailed description of the programs and services comprising Alberta's health care system.

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Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 231mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   560g
ISBN:   9781487507527
ISBN 10:   1487507526
Series:   Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles
Pages:   286
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John Church is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Neale Smith is a research coordinator at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews for Alberta: A Health System Profile

This case study is a valuable addition to the Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles series, which recognizes that 'there is not, and has never been, a single Canadian health system.' Based on a template prepared for the World Health Organization and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Health Systems in Transition (HiT), it provides detailed information about health care in Alberta, and an analysis of its successes and failures. - Raisa Deber, Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto This excellent volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative portrait of Alberta's health care system. It provides thorough descriptions and assessments of the system's organization, financing, and performance, written in clear, accessible prose. It will prove to be an indispensable tool for understanding the system's successes as well as its shortcomings and for mapping its future. It is a welcome addition to a much-needed series of provincial health system profiles. - Tom McIntosh, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina, and Co-Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU)


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