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Private Sector Delivery: Scope and Extent in Canada's Health Care System

Health services in Canada are delivered by a comprehensive range of public and private sector providers. Although a wealth of information describing the consumption of health services by Canadians is available through sources such as Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information, together with detailed information describing health services provided by public agencies, access to consolidated information describing the scope and extent of private sector involvement in delivering health services to Canadians is much more limited.

Commissioned under the Health Policy Research Program of Health Canada, this study seeks to address this shortcoming by gathering aggregate data about a range of privately delivered health services from key informants coast to coast, and combining this information (where possible) with information available from secondary sources.

For more information, please contact Lynda Schertzer, Research Associate, ideas FOR HEALTH at 519-888-4567 ext 32131 or email at lschertz@uwaterloo.ca.

Download the PDF version of the "Private Sector Delivery: Scope and Extent in Canada's Health Care System" report.

The report contains summarized data only. An accompanying PSD Findings Browser application is available that provides more freedom to explore the data collected than is possible through the presentation of static exhibits present in the report. Click here for more information.