Health care in Canada 2010 : Soins de santé au Canada 2010

The next set of examples focuses on the aspects of right care and right place for appropriate care by highlighting examples where the right care is known but is not happening and where care is not provided in the most appropriate setting. [...] Highlights and the full text of Health Care in Canada 2010 are available free of change in English and French on the CIHI website. [...] Health Care in Canada 2010 xi Introduction Introduction If “access” and “wait times” were the buzz words of the first decade of the 21st century, “value for money,” “appropriateness” and “quality of care” may be the ones for the second. [...] Health Care in Canada 2010 3 Many of the narratives in this report point to waste and inefficiencies in the health care system. [...] The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.