Sharing the learning: The health transition fund synthesis series: Supporting and evidence-based future in Canadian health care
In recent years, Canada's health care system has been closely scrutinized with a view to quality improvement and cost-effectiveness. Fiscal pressures and changing demographics are resulting in initiatives to explore how the efficiency of the health care system can be increased while ensuring that high-quality services are affordable and accessible. Within this context, there has been a need for more research-based evidence about which approaches and models of health care have been working and which have not. In response to this requirement for evidence, and on the recommendation of the National Forum on Health, the Health Transition Fund (HTF) was created out of the 1997 federal budget to encourage and support evidence-based decision making in health care reform. A joint effort between federal, provincial and territorial governments, the HTF funded 141 pilot projects and/or evaluation studies across Canada between 1997 and 2001, for a total cost of $150 million. Of that, $120 million supported provincial and territorial projects and the remaining $30 million funded national-level initiatives. The HTF targeted initiatives in four priority areas: home care, pharmaceutical issues, primary health care, and integrated service delivery. Various other focus areas emerged under the umbrella of the original four themes, including Aboriginal health, rural health/telehealth, seniors health, mental health, and children's health. The HTF projects were completed by the spring of 2001. In order to communicate the evidence generated by the projects to decision-makers, experts were employed to synthesize the key process and outcome learnings in each theme area. This document summarizes the overall key learnings of the HTF projects. It has been prepared by Steven Lewis of Access Consulting Ltd.
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Author
Lewis S
Year
2002
Subject
- Health Human Resources-General
- Planning-General
- Policy-General
- Policy-Regional/National
Geography
- Canada
Document Type
Electronic Documents
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788
Language
English
File - English
Keywords
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